Meditations in Color

Introducing The Palette Studio. Upload any image, or pull a painting or movie from the archive. The Studio distills its palette into a series of chromatic studies, each a different way of seeing the colors within. Copy color values, download studies or browse palettes. 🔗👇

Anni Albers, Red Meander I, 1969-70. A screenprint made by turning and overprinting a single screen in different directions, first in one ink, then in a stronger related color.

Kay Nielsen, concept art for the Night on Bald Mountain sequence of Disney's Fantasia. 1940.

Johannes Itten, Untitled. 1948. Watercolor & pencil on paper.

Celestial map from the Zubdat al-Tawarikh of Seyyid Loqman Ashuri. Istanbul, 1583. Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts.

Manuel Cargaleiro, Abstraction dans l'espace. 1967. Oil on canvas.

Leon Polk Smith, N.Y. City. 1945. Oil and pencil on linen. Whitney Museum of American Art.

Paul Laffoley, The World Self (1967), True Liberation (1963), The House of the Self (1971), The Visionary Point (1970).

Jaroslav Panuška, Vampire. c. 1900. Oil on hardboard.

Paul Sougy, anatomy wall charts for Dr. Auzoux: Nerve Tissue, Breathing, The Liver and Pancreas, The Eye. 1946-57.

Tatiana Bystrova, Nocturnal Bloom. 1970. Gouache on paper.

Hablik painted clouds with the curling lines of Art Nouveau and surprisingly little white or gray. In Eine Wolke, pink and pale yellow light meet blue-violet shadows, traced in golden yellow.

Frida Kahlo, Moses (Nucleus of Creation). 1945. Oil on masonite. With color studies.

René Laloux and Roland Topor, La Planète sauvage (Fantastic Planet). 1973. Animated with cut-out paper figures.

Aigana Gali, Meditator III. 2021. Oil and acrylic on canvas.

Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg, poster for Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera. 1929. Lithograph. Museum of Modern Art, New York.

John Bauer, The Princess and the Trolls. 1913. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.

The Lady and the Unicorn: À mon seul désir, Sight, Hearing and Smell. Wool and silk tapestries, c. 1500. Musée de Cluny, Paris.

Root systems of shrubs and herbs of the forest floor. Plate from John E. Weaver, The Ecological Relations of Roots. 1919.

Four pages from the Codex Borgia, a ritual and divinatory book painted in central Mexico before the Spanish conquest. Vatican Library, shown in the 1898 facsimile.