Colour · Art History · Perception
Can you tell a Rothko from a Morandi?
A colour appears. Find the artist or movement it belongs to. 100 iconic palettes — Monet, Kandinsky, Kahlo, Rothko, Klein. Speed matters. Your eye decides.
Also playable on mobile — open nopaintbrush.com/games/chromatic in your browser. On desktop, use keys 1 2 3 4 to select.
A colour appears
A single colour swatch — no name, no context. Just the hue itself and the name of the specific pigment.
Find its palette
Four palettes are shown. Identify which artist or movement this colour belongs to. Faster answers score more.
Difficulty rises
Early rounds pit clearly different movements against each other. Later rounds put Morandi next to Tuymans. Near-impossible.
100 palettes — free web
- Impressionism — Monet, Renoir, Morisot, Pissarro
- Post-Impressionism — Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin
- German Expressionism — Kirchner, Nolde, Kollwitz
- Bauhaus — Kandinsky, Klee, Albers, Gunta Stölzl
- Surrealism — Dalí, Magritte, Kahlo, Carrington
- Abstract Expressionism — Rothko, de Kooning, Mitchell
- Minimalism — Judd, Flavin, Martin, Andre
- Pop Art — Warhol, Lichtenstein, Hockney
318 palettes — full app
- Photography — Keïta, Sidibé, Maier, Lange, Parks
- Cinema — Varda, Kubrick, Almodóvar, Wong Kar-Wai
- Architecture — Barragán, Bo Bardi, Hadid, Kéré
- Design — Bass, Scher, Tanaka, Greiman
- Diaspora — Basquiat, Ringgold, Bearden, Catlett
- Maghreb — Belkahia, Koraïchi, Sedira, Fasiki
- Africa — El Anatsui, Mutu, Keïta, Chiurai
- Asia/Pacific — Kusama, Weiwei, Shiota, Malani
Every palette you find is yours.
Correctly identify an artist and their palette is added to your collection. Each entry unlocks the colour names, hex codes, and links to Wikipedia and Google Arts & Culture. A growing personal archive of art history.
Full version — iOS & Android
318 palettes. Infinite levels.
60 seconds on the clock.
The full app adds photography, cinema, architecture, and design. A global 60-second timer that drains with every wrong answer. Time Extends earned through streak bonuses. Level 5 — palettes shift while you decide.
Chromatic was built by Alexandre Desane — painter working with oil pastel and oil stick in Paris. The same sensitivity to colour that shaped the game shapes the work on paper. If a palette catches your eye, the originals are available directly.