Xu Beihong Palette 2

Palette Analysis

Xu Beihong is high-key - luminous, open, and weighted toward light. Blues and teal-greys govern the palette, lending it an aquatic or atmospheric quality. Chroma is moderate: colours carry enough saturation to be read as colour, but the palette stops well short of garish intensity. #F7CC85 at 36.5% of the palette: an overwhelming presence that pulls all other colours into its gravitational field. The most saturated colour, #E3B262, is reserved to 6.1% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. A value spread of 68 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light. The mid-to-high key, cool bias, and moderate chroma point to outdoor observation - sky and diffused daylight as the dominant light source. This is palette 2 of Xu Beihong's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.