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A living archive of how artists work with color across time. Each artist profile scans publicly available works to trace dominant colors, a chromatic fingerprint, and the arc of a palette across a lifetime.A living archive of how artists work with color across time, tracing palettes, fingerprints, and lifetime arcs from public works.

Begin with an artist, carry a palette into the drawing system, or read the wider project.Begin with an artist, carry a palette into the drawing system, or read the wider project.

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Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Gallen-Kallela painted Finnish mythology in the colors of the northern landscape — deep forest greens, lake blues, winter whites, and the warm amber of firelight.

Palette: #816C4E #3C3026 #99A6AF #AA9E86 #574936 #4B2C1C #744023 #44555A

  • Adolf Paul (1903): #3F544A #677560 #A38459 #EBC78F #E0AF6A #D19058
  • Démasquée (1888): #70654A #181818 #3B362A #9B9477 #CBC7B3 #815B3C
  • Kullervo Cursing (1899): #766F5A #B3A588 #8F7650 #524F44 #5D4C35 #3C342D
  • Lemminkäinen's Mother (1897): #191615 #7D6B4D #56442C #2E221B #E0D4B8 #443220
  • Painting and Nganga Holding a Parasol in Ukamba, Ca.1910. (14727881115) (1910): #A4AFB3 #8198A8 #4F7897
  • In the Middle), Louis Sparre and Albert Edelfelt Painting at Imatra with Some Audience, 1893. (14542152667 (1893): #A89C8C #463D32 #6F6456 #897E6C
  • Lake Keitele (1905): #8D9DAB #50585D #222F3B #6A7C8C #CACFCF #375369
  • Konstnärens Moder: #23241F #4B2E22 #7C654C #39261D #514130 #C9A788
  • Vårnatt: #83A4C0 #233739 #5980A6 #41554F #325882 #14252C
  • Autunno, Cinque Croci (1902): #94785C #3B2E21 #6C4B27 #DDBB93 #A37336 #614F40

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