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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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Jean Dubuffet

Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet was a French painter and sculptor of the École de Paris. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so-called "low art" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making.

Palette: #81514F #A77A74 #C1A496 #553435 #3C481D #5E663A #75232D #DFEEF2

  • Spinning Round (1961): #877E86 #57515A #775457 #4C3036 #BB8488 #994B53
  • The Busy Life (1953): #C0A197 #98766E #76544E #563A35 #E5CBC1 #AA6D5E
  • Vicissitudes (1977): #CBBDBB #4E4445 #786664 #613536 #8A4D46 #4D6084
  • The Tree of Fluids (1950): #C3A796 #82716E #AC8A81 #594D4D #855C59
  • Jardin d'Émail Dubuffet: #D7D8D7 #252B1E #A1A49F #151A14 #6D746B #434841
  • Jardin D'Émail (1974): #5F6636 #DFEEF2 #969894 #3D4619 #2C3226 #636C6B

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