understated

Feeling word · 5 styles

Low in appetite and stimulation. Low value, low saturation, brown-grey and grey-green, matte; dry and rough; quiet. Of objects, landscape.

Styles

• Wabi-Sabi
• Tonalism
• Ink-Wash Landscape
• English Watercolour Tradition
• Literati Bleak Ink

Co-occurs with

• oil film
• atmospheric haze
• sparseness
• evenness
• austerity
• muffled
• verdigris green
• vanishing
• bleakness
• airy
• discolouration
• seclusion

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