A Chart Of The Most Common Colors In Paintings Over The Last 200 Years

Next time you ’re strolling through a museum , give attention to just the colors of the paintings and the years . observe anything ? Paintings have been getting increasingly blue .

Or , to put it another manner , blue is becoming “ the raw orange , ” says Martin Bellander , who put together this chart analyzing colouring material usage in over 120,000 paintings . To make this visualization , he dispute data and double from the BBC ’s database of famous painting through the centuries and canvas which colors predominated .

Orange is , indeed , far and away the most used color in picture through the nineteenth century , and then the usage of other colors — blue , in particular — start to grovel upwards so that by our own sentence , the color spread is fairly evenly spread across the spectrum . Why exactly this happened is n’t clean . But just as interesting is the question of how far we can expect it to go : Will the current state of more - or - less vividness equilibrium hold , or will a similar chart a few one C from now show depressed sweeping the domain , just like orange used to ?

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