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Each collection is a rule applied to the measured palettes and the museums' data, not a hand-picked list. The rule is stated on each page.
Colour in modern art491 works
Blue paintings100 works
Red at the heart149 works
Golden light529 works
Green landscapes65 works
The most colourful paintings48 works
Quiet, near-monochrome paintings48 works
Out of the dark158 works
Pale and pastel263 works
Impressionist light48 works
Nocturnes22 works
Dutch Golden Age paintings80 works
Dutch Golden Age interiors and genre scenes27 works
Blues of Japanese prints17 works
Women artists97 worksThe rules
| Collection | Rule | Works |
|---|---|---|
| Colour in modern art | Works dated 1880 or later whose palettes average a chroma (colourfulness) of 24 or more: Fauves, Expressionists, Nabis, early abstraction and the WPA posters, most colourful first. | 491 |
| Blue paintings | Paintings in which blues make up at least 30% of the picture, by our palette count. | 100 |
| Red at the heart | Paintings where reds cover at least a fifth of the surface. | 149 |
| Golden light | Paintings dominated by golds, ochres and yellows: at least 45% of the picture. | 529 |
| Green landscapes | Landscapes in which greens cover at least 35% of the canvas. | 65 |
| The most colourful paintings | The 48 paintings with the highest average chroma (colourfulness) in our measurement. | 48 |
| Quiet, near-monochrome paintings | The 48 paintings with the lowest average chroma: greys, browns and muted tones. | 48 |
| Out of the dark | Paintings from 1580 to 1720 whose average lightness is below 28 (of 100): the age of dramatic shadow. | 158 |
| Pale and pastel | Light, soft paintings: average lightness above 66 and low chroma. | 263 |
| Impressionist light | The brightest Impressionist works on the site, ranked by average lightness. | 48 |
| Nocturnes | Night scenes whose average lightness is under 35. | 22 |
| Dutch Golden Age paintings | Paintings from the Netherlands dated 1600–1700, in date order. | 80 |
| Dutch Golden Age interiors and genre scenes | Dutch works of 1600–1700 set indoors or in everyday life, by the museums' subject tags and titles. | 27 |
| Blues of Japanese prints | Japanese prints in which blues make up at least a quarter of the sheet. | 17 |
| Women artists | Works by women, as flagged by the museums (AIC's 'Women artists' theme; The Met's artist gender field). | 97 |