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Introducing The Palette Studio.
Upload any image, or pull a painting or movie from the archive. The Studio distills its palette into a series of chromatic studies, each a different way of seeing the colors within.
Copy color values, download studies or browse palettes.
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Upload any image, or pull a painting or movie from the archive. The Studio distills its palette into a series of chromatic studies, each a different way of seeing the colors within.
Copy color values, download studies or browse palettes.
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Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights Triptych. 1490-1500.
Oil on oak panel.
Oil on oak panel.
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Meditations in Color retweeted
For about three thousand years, desire has been art's most constant subject, and civilization has spent most of that time finding respectable ways to name it. We are a working archive of that history, across every culture and century, one work and one story at a time.
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Rothko's room at the Phillips Collection was the first space in an American museum set aside for his work. He asked for dimmer light and a plain wooden bench, and the bench is still there.
Mark Rothko, 1953-57. Oil on canvas.
Mark Rothko, 1953-57. Oil on canvas.
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The colors of a butterfly wing are not pigment. Microscopic structures in its scales interfere with light and reflect the color.
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The colors of abalone shells.
The iridescence comes from nacre, stacked layers of aragonite platelets that diffract light into color. Photos by James St. John.
The iridescence comes from nacre, stacked layers of aragonite platelets that diffract light into color. Photos by James St. John.
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Compagnie G茅n茅rale des Produits C茅ramiques, tile designs from Saint-Ghislain, Belgium. Likely 1896.
Four catalogue plates for ceramic tiles.
Four catalogue plates for ceramic tiles.
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Mark Rothko, No. 4 (Untitled). 1953.
Oil on canvas.
Rothko made this canvas almost nine feet tall and only about four feet wide.
Oil on canvas.
Rothko made this canvas almost nine feet tall and only about four feet wide.
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Edgar Degas, Four Dancers. About 1899. Oil on canvas. Orange-red bodices against a field of green.
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Nobody knows who she was, or whether Vermeer used a real model. Girl with a Pearl Earring is a tronie, a study of a character rather than a portrait of an identified person.
The dark background was once a green curtain but its translucent paint has changed over the centuries. ound tiny eyelashes that are now difficult to see.
Her pearl has no visible hook or outline. Vermeer suggests its shape with touches of white paint, including a reflection of her collar.
And the blue in her headscarf began as lapis lazuli from what is now Afghanistan, ground into ultramarine, a pigment often described as more precious than gold in the 17th ce.
The dark background was once a green curtain but its translucent paint has changed over the centuries. ound tiny eyelashes that are now difficult to see.
Her pearl has no visible hook or outline. Vermeer suggests its shape with touches of white paint, including a reflection of her collar.
And the blue in her headscarf began as lapis lazuli from what is now Afghanistan, ground into ultramarine, a pigment often described as more precious than gold in the 17th ce.
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