The color of modern art.
3,275 extracted color occurrences across 417 archived works by Henri Matisse, Wassily Kandinsky, and Vincent van Gogh, compressed into three chromatic archives.
George Hurst, Colour (1900).
Hurst was a Scottish chemist, dye expert, and color theorist.
Looking back, many of these diagrams feel unexpectedly modern. Looking forward, they helped establish some of the foundations on which 20th CE color theory would be built.
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Paul Signac treated color as a source of light.
Across harbors, coastlines, and Mediterranean towns, the palette repeatedly drifts toward pastel blues, corals, pinks, and yellows.
Light seems to bleach everything toward radiance.
Marc Chagall's The Sleepwalker, c. 1911–12, translated into a palette field.
Painted shortly after his arrival in Paris, where Russian folk imagery began mixing with the color experiments of the European avant garde.
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