The Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colours, and Their Applications to the Arts

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Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855 - 403 pagine
 

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Pagina 7 - If we look simultaneously upon two stripes of different tones of the same color, or...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.

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