The Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colours, and Their Applications to the Arts |
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agreeable appear arrangement artist associations ASSORTMENT OF COLOURS assortment White band BEAUVAIS TAPESTRY Bengal Rose binary assortments Black bluer border brilliant CHAPTER chiaro'scuro coloured light coloured materials coloured objects complementary complementary colour complexion contiguous contrast of colours contrast of tone Dahlia decoration different colours dominant colour drapery employed example favourable flat tints flowers furniture give GOBELINS TAPESTRY Green Green thread Guelder Rose hangings harmony of analogy harmony of contrast hues imitation Indigo interior Jasminum fruticans Judas tree juxtaposition Laburnum latter law of contrast law of simultaneous less light tones manner masses mixed mixture modifications normal tone observations Orange Orange colour ornaments painter paper paper-hangings patterns perceive picture placed plants preceding present principle produce Prunus mahaleb pure colour rays falling reflected relation remark render represent result retina Ribes rubrum Savonnerie scale simultaneous contrast spectator stuff suitable surface Violet Lilac vivid wainscoting White ground white light Yellow
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Page 7 - If we look simultaneously upon two stripes of different tones of the same color, or...
Page 251 - Black draperies, lowering the tone of the colors with •which they are in juxtaposition, whiten the skin ; but if the vermilion or rosy parts are to a certain point distant from the drapery, it will follow that, although lowered in tone, they appear relatively to the white parts of the skin contiguous to the same drapery redder than if the contiguity to the black did not exist.
Page 250 - Blue is, then, suitable to most blondes, and in this case justifies its reputation. It will not suit brunettes, since they have already too much of orange. Orange drapery : — Orange is too brilliant to be elegant ; it makes fair complexions blue, whitens those which have an orange tint, and gives a green hue to those of a yellow tint.