Colour · Art History · Perception
Can you tell a Rothko from a Morandi?
A colour appears. Find the artist or movement it belongs to. 347 palettes — painting, photography, cinema, architecture, design. Speed matters. Your eye decides.
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.
Painting
Impressionism — Monet, Berthe Morisot, Pissarro · Post-Impressionism — Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin · Expressionism — Kollwitz, Nolde, Kirchner · Bauhaus — Kandinsky, Gunta Stölzl, Albers · Surrealism — Kahlo, Leonora Carrington, Dalí, Magritte · Abstract Expressionism — Joan Mitchell, Rothko, Lee Krasner · Minimalism — Agnes Martin, Judd · Pop Art — Hockney, Warhol · Harlem Renaissance — Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden · Faith Ringgold, Tarsila do Amaral, Hilma af Klint · Maghreb — Farid Belkahia, Rachid Koraïchi, Zineb Sedira · Africa — El Anatsui, Wangechi Mutu, Chéri Samba, Simone Leigh · Asia/Pacific — Yayoi Kusama, Tatsuo Miyajima, Katsushika Hokusai
Photography
Seydou Keïta, Malick Sidibé, Zanele Muholi, Carrie Mae Weems, Dorothea Lange, Vivian Maier, Gordon Parks, Diane Arbus
Cinema
Agnès Varda, Wong Kar-Wai, Akira Kurosawa, Pedro Almodóvar, Ousmane Sembène, Claire Denis, Stanley Kubrick, Wes Anderson
Architecture
Lina Bo Bardi, Zaha Hadid, Kazuyo Sejima, Luis Barragán, Diébédo Francis Kéré, Carlo Scarpa
Graphic Design
Paula Scher, April Greiman, Ikko Tanaka, Saul Bass, Armin Hofmann, Muriel Cooper
347 palettes · All free · No account
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.
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.