The Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colours, and Their Applications to the Arts: Including Painting, Interior Decoration, Tapestries, Carpets, Mosaics, Coloured Glazing, Paper-staining, Calico-printing, Letterpress Printing, Map-colouring, Dress, Landscape and Flower Gardening, EtcHenry G. Bohn, 1860 - 465 pages |
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... position were greatly increased by numerous per- plexing questions proposed to me for solution by the direc- tors of that establishment ; I was therefore obliged to arrange my labours differently than if I had been free from every other ...
... position were greatly increased by numerous per- plexing questions proposed to me for solution by the direc- tors of that establishment ; I was therefore obliged to arrange my labours differently than if I had been free from every other ...
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... position know that human weakness is felt mostly by him who would reap from the soil he has himself ploughed and sown . The work I now publish is the result of my researches on Simultaneous Contrast of Colours ; researches which have ...
... position know that human weakness is felt mostly by him who would reap from the soil he has himself ploughed and sown . The work I now publish is the result of my researches on Simultaneous Contrast of Colours ; researches which have ...
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... position relatively to the spectator 106 CHAPTER II . — On the difference existing between a coloured object and the imitation of it made by a painter , when the spectator observes it from a different point of view from his SECTION II ...
... position relatively to the spectator 106 CHAPTER II . — On the difference existing between a coloured object and the imitation of it made by a painter , when the spectator observes it from a different point of view from his SECTION II ...
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... conceive that the image of a body in a given position , is composed of the sum of the physical points which reflect to the eye so placed , a portion of the light that each point radiates . B. When the body is polished , like the surface B ...
... conceive that the image of a body in a given position , is composed of the sum of the physical points which reflect to the eye so placed , a portion of the light that each point radiates . B. When the body is polished , like the surface B ...
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... positions where the non - polished surface is visible , all its parts will be equally , or nearly equally , illuminated ; while the eye , when it is in a position to receive only that which is reflected irregularly , will re- ceive but ...
... positions where the non - polished surface is visible , all its parts will be equally , or nearly equally , illuminated ; while the eye , when it is in a position to receive only that which is reflected irregularly , will re- ceive but ...
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aerial perspective agreeable artist association assortment White band BEAUVAIS TAPESTRY binary assortments Black Blue and Violet border brilliant CHAPTER chiar'oscuro coloured light coloured materials coloured objects coloured rays complementary colour complexion contrast of colours contrast of tone different colours drapery employed example favourable flat tints flowers furniture glass GOBELINS TAPESTRY Green Green threads Greenish-Yellow hangings harmony of analogy harmony of contrast height of tone hues imitation incline Indigo inferior intensity Jasminum fruticans Laburnum latter law of contrast LAW OF SIMULTANEOUS less less Brown light tones Lilac luminous colours manner mixture neutralise normal tone observations Orange Orange colour Orange-Yellow painter painting paper patterns perceive picture Pink placed plants portion preceding present principle Prunus mahaleb pure colour rays falling reflected remark render represent result retina rose SAVONNERIE CARPETS scale simple colours simultaneous contrast sombre colours spectator stripes stuff surface tion trast Violet wainscoting White ground white light