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The ochre cliff color was a deliberate departure from the cliff's actual greenery, chosen for color-balance reasons rather than observation; the real green was relocated to the headland above instead."},{"@type":"PropertyValue","propertyID":"art-official:directInspiration","name":"Direct Inspiration","value":"Goethe's proportional color-balance principle, first tested in Color Theory (1995): a dark, saturated color balanced by a larger field of its light complement. Applied here as a warm ochre cliff face answering the cool blue sky and teal water."},{"@type":"PropertyValue","propertyID":"art-official:artHistoricalContext","name":"Art Historical Context","value":"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Zur Farbenlehre — Complementary color-proportion principle carried forward from Color Theory (1995) and applied here to the cliff/sky relationship."},{"@type":"PropertyValue","propertyID":"art-official:sizeTier","name":"Size Tier","value":"md"},{"@type":"PropertyValue","propertyID":"art-official:orientation","name":"Orientation","value":"square"},{"@type":"PropertyValue","propertyID":"art-official:catalogueNumber","name":"Catalogue Number","value":"BB-ACH-2015-019"},{"@type":"PropertyValue","propertyID":"art-official:reasoningStatus","name":"Reasoning Status","value":"complete"}],"art-official:recordUrl":"https://bernardbolter.com/api/corpus/cliff-house-1902","art-official:visionPageUrl":"https://bernardbolter.com/cliff-house-1902/vision","art-official:indexUrl":"https://bernardbolter.com/api/corpus/index","art-official:sessionsUrl":"https://bernardbolter.com/api/corpus/cliff-house-1902/sessions","art-official:sessionsPageUrl":"https://bernardbolter.com/sessions?artwork=cliff-house-1902","art-official:scope":"work","art-official:depth":"record","art-official:tier":4,"art-official:availableTiers":{"1":true,"2":true,"3":true,"4":true,"5":true},"art-official:tierMap":{"1":{"url":"https://bernardbolter.com/api/corpus/index","scope":"corpus","depth":"gist","description":"triage — identity, series, gist"},"2":{"url":"https://bernardbolter.com/api/corpus/index?depth=survey","scope":"subset","depth":"survey","description":"narrowing — description, intent, colors, keywords"},"3":{"urlTemplate":"https://bernardbolter.com/{slug}/vision","scope":"work","depth":"vision","description":"vision analysis — HTML page of model analyses for this work"},"4":{"urlTemplate":"https://bernardbolter.com/api/corpus/{slug}","scope":"work","depth":"record","description":"full record — all fields, all vision analyses"},"5":{"urlTemplate":"https://bernardbolter.com/api/corpus/{slug}/sessions","scope":"work","depth":"sessions","description":"session transcripts — how it came to be known"}},"art-official:embeddings":[{"@type":"art-official:Embedding","art-official:model":"clip-vit-large-patch14","art-official:dimensions":768,"art-official:specUrl":"https://huggingface.co/openai/clip-vit-large-patch14","art-official:shortDescription":"Language-informed visual embedding — 768 dimensions","dateCreated":"2026-06-18"},{"@type":"art-official:Embedding","art-official:model":"dinov2-large","art-official:dimensions":1024,"art-official:specUrl":"https://huggingface.co/facebook/dinov2-large","art-official:shortDescription":"Self-supervised visual embedding, no language influence — 1024 dimensions","dateCreated":"2026-07-16"}],"art-official:visionAnalyses":[{"@type":"art-official:VisionAnalysis","text":"The Victorian chateau Cliff House occupies the right third of the frame, perched on a rocky headland — a black-and-white photographic transfer rendered in fine architectural detail against flat, hand-painted acrylic color fields. Above, a turquoise sky. Below and to the left, a teal-to-white gradient ocean giving way to near-black wet sand in the foreground, with a warm ochre cliff face rising beside the building and a dark green headland capping it above. Small dark figures wade at the tideline, their forms and the building's silhouette both mirrored in a clean, unbroken reflection on the wet sand. The composition balances the photographic architecture against three large, confidently flat color fields — a deliberate proportional answer between cool (sky, water) and warm (cliff), consistent with a recurring warm/cool complementary logic elsewhere in this artist's practice.","art-official:model":"Claude Sonnet 5","dateCreated":"2026-08-04"}]}