As an "expert viewer" of Baumgartner Restoration, this site usefulness is questionable. If you look at those color palettes, most of them brownish that is because of dirty & old oxidised varnish. These are not the intended look of these paintings. So these color palettes has nothing to do with those 3000 masters.<p><a href="https://youtube.com/@baumgartnerrestoration" rel="nofollow">https://youtube.com/@baumgartnerrestoration</a>
Agreed. I absolutely adore the idea of it! But all the brownish colours tell the same story.<p>For some additional context; many old pigments were not stable at all.<p><a href="https://www.vangoghstudio.com/what-were-the-original-colors-of-van-goghs-paintings/" rel="nofollow">https://www.vangoghstudio.com/what-were-the-original-colors-...</a>
Is there enough color data left in the brown to correct it?<p>Or do you need to infer it based on location, budget, time, climate etc?
This is a very interesting perspective. I'd thought the muted, brownish colors in these paintings had to do with the quality and availability of pigments during that period.
There's most likely multiple aspects at play: high-chroma pigments were historically limited and/or expensive; varnish yellowed over time; pigments faded. The digitization process probably wasn't perfect as well (I'd expect modern scans should be fairly good though).
hundreds of years of oxidation will make everything brown.
It’s the colours you will see today when looking at the paintings, however. Your point is valid, but even the somewhat "chromatically degraded" versions of many of these are gorgeous.
It was short but I really enjoyed this little thread this morning, added much color to my life!<p>> <i>Starting in the Renaissance, artists made sculpture and architecture that exalted form over color, in homage to what they thought Greek and Roman art had looked like. In the eighteenth century, Johann Winckelmann, the German scholar who is often called the father of art history, contended that “the whiter the body is, the more beautiful it is,” and that “color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty.” When the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were first excavated, in the mid-eighteenth century, Winckelmann saw some of their artifacts in Naples, and noticed color on them. But he found a way around that discomfiting observation, claiming that a statue of Artemis with red hair, red sandals, and a red quiver strap must have been not Greek but Etruscan—the product of an earlier civilization that was considered less sophisticated. He later concluded, however, that the Artemis probably was Greek. (It is now thought to be a Roman copy of a Greek original.) Østergaard and Brinkmann believe that Winckelmann’s thinking was evolving, and that he might eventually have embraced polychromy, had he not died in 1768, at the age of fifty, after being stabbed by a fellow-traveller at an inn in Trieste</i><p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/29/the-myth-of-whiteness-in-classical-sculpture" rel="nofollow">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/29/the-myth-of-wh...</a> cited by
<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/ellipticalnight.bsky.social/post/3ml4iuph5lc26" rel="nofollow">https://bsky.app/profile/ellipticalnight.bsky.social/post/3m...</a><p>Man, what a line. What a horror, this projection of opinion! From the "Father of Art History"! To rob the world so! I feel this way all the time, that anti-sentiment, that the pure marble world just stately and so is art and perfection, over the colors of the universe & it's possibility!<p>> <i>"the whiter the body is, the more beautiful it is"</i><p>This should make your blood run cold, imo. A world locked in amber view of reality, static, sedate. Whew.
Hi, I like it! 2 things I noticed:<p>1) Aren't "Modernism" and "Modernismo" the same thing? I'm a Spanish speaker and from my POV they are<p>2) Selected "Naïve Art" style and it's broken (images not loading). Probably something to do with the diaeresis
I used to run an art social network 15 years ago that did this automatically with every piece of art uploaded and then it let you search for art by color that way.<p>Basically<p>$average = new Imagick( $file );<p>$average->quantizeImage( $numColors, Imagick::COLORSPACE_RGB, 0, false, false ); //Reduce the amount of colors to 10<p>$average->uniqueImageColors(); //Only save one pixel of each color
Hey ouli, your hello email bounces.<p>See also: <a href="https://amandahinton.com/blog/creating-a-color-palette-from-an-image" rel="nofollow">https://amandahinton.com/blog/creating-a-color-palette-from-...</a>
The letter directory is based upon artist first name... seems odd especially as most are going to know the last name and only maybe the first.
Why do I only see Claude in this UI?
It seems Claude is picking up the very same color scheme for many webpage building requests.
This is great! Love the idea. You should send to some art programs, sure they would get a kick out of it. Also gives another use case outside of just digital design.
Love it. I'll be using this on a weekly basis in my art practice.<p>Let me know if you ever create an API endpoint.
Weird how similar many of those are to Commodore 64 palette.
You are absolutely right, I did not realize how similar some of these palettes are to Commodore 64 palette<p>see this palette for example:
<a href="https://paletteinspiration.com/fauvism-palettes/fauvism-19-palette/" rel="nofollow">https://paletteinspiration.com/fauvism-palettes/fauvism-19-p...</a><p>or other Fauvism palettes:
<a href="https://paletteinspiration.com/fauvism-palettes/" rel="nofollow">https://paletteinspiration.com/fauvism-palettes/</a>
It's wonderful. Thank you for building this.
So... ummm... the website and all the submitter's comments here seem very Claude generated, no?<p>Spam filters are going to have to get a lot more sophisticated. "Slop" filters, even.
As a gruvbox enjoyer, I approve.
this is interesting, we should wire this to frontend design system library that automatically helps user use these palette.
Yes, exactly this. It falls far short of the potential if it just shows the colours alone and not how they might appear if applied to sites, charts, illustrations or whatever you might want them for.
I am planning to add a section where people can re-color their portraits, landscape images or even interior rooms using carefully curated palettes based on master painters palettes. Applying to websites, illustrations or charts also can be extremely useful.
Thank you. Glad you find it interesting.
I am currently looking for colour palettes and this website is of interest to me.<p>Small snag, some UTF8 things are going on with some colour names, I am sure you know and have cursed accordingly.<p>I like OKLCH colours and the ability to mix them in interesting ways using CSS things.
This means I don't do hex codes for colours in CSS. I can translate though, however, soon some people will demand OKLCH, so you might as well add it in, trying to get it natural with the picker.<p>I appreciate the masters but I wonder how this would work using other sources, for example, Sunday newspaper supplements from the last century, and their glossy adverts, which were to a higher standard than what we get today.
Very nice. My only gripe is the automatic page switching on scroll, never encountered that before and I absolutely hate it
Thank you for the kind words and insightful feedback. My intention with page-switching on scroll was to offer more color palettes without requiring extra clicks. I had some reservations about it too, but couldn't find a better way to provide a continuous feed of similar palettes. I'll work on improving that feature.
The problem, from a UX standpoint, is that you need a visual affordance for the behavior. That is, you must indicate that it's about to happen and give the user the opportunity to abort. Alternatively, a continuous gallery could suffice.
It's very convenient, I wish I could offer a worthy suggestion. The trouble in my case is that it's very sensitive and the palettes are barely in view before the page refreshes, they don't reach the center of the screen. Thanks for sharing
app version?
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