supercool impressionist palette chart

so these guys Arthur Buxton and Derek Ruths took one painting per year, over a decade, from each of the ten impressionist superstars below. they summarized the paintings’ palettes, and tracked the changes in color patterns from the naturalistic 19th century into the wilder 1900′s. brilliant idea and beautifully executed!“The chart analyzes an individual painting from each year and puts the five most prominent colors in a pie chart, shown proportionally. Monet moves from dark greens in the 1890s to the recognizable soft blues and pinks of his water lily paintings in 1905. Munch also makes for an interesting study, though his moody selection of reds, oranges and browns doesn’t change very much. Gauguin’s colors tend toward the tropical over time, while Degas embraces the dusty, nocturnal colors of the theater backstage.”

source: Blouin ArtInfo