Rembrandt

REMBRANDT

for rationale behind this page see Analysis of Well-Known Artworks

THE NIGHT WATCH (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)

Reds:8.03% • Oranges:53.13% • Yellows:1.39% • Yellow-Greens:<0.01% • Greens:<0.01% • Cyans:<0.01% • Blues:<0.01% • Purples:<0.01% • Magentas:<0.01% • Greys:37.36% • Whites:<0.01% • Blacks:<0.01%

Mood and Atmosphere: Bland

A rather fragmented painting where each little bit would probably stand better as a work of art on its own. Predominant colour orange, including much of the dark areas, gives it some coherence.

Colour Constancy (see my page Colour Constancy):

The blue colour on the shawl of the young woman and the dress of the woman behind her is not, looked at with a colour meter, blue, it is grey-green, looked at in isolation you would say more grey than green. This kind of colour:

The blue-appearing colour is not a flat colour, each pixel is a different shade, the sample square that I have given being just one of them, but if you look at the blue-appearing areas with a colour meter you will see that all the pixels are a shade of grey-green, not blue.

Split into seven equal brightnesses and every second brightness coloured in, every other one transparent, over an orange radial gradient, overlaid with lines from my edge-detection software.

Split into seven equal brightnesses and every second brightness coloured in, every other one transparent, over an orange radial gradient, overlaid with lines from my edge-detection software. The net effect is that you can see quite a lot that it is hard to see in the original painting.

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Fullsize for this may be seen on my Flickr photostream.

Dave Collier, Carlisle, England

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