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The laws of contrast of colour : $b and their application to the arts of painting, decoration of buildings, mosaic work, tapestry and carpet weaving, calico printing, dress, paper staining, printing, military clothing, illumination, landscape, and flower gardening, &c. — John Shaqi

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The laws of contrast of colour : $b and their application to the arts of painting, decoration of buildings, mosaic work, tapestry and carpet weaving, calico printing, dress, paper staining, printing, military clothing, illumination, landscape, and flower gardening, &c.

Name: The laws of contrast of colour : $b and their application to the arts of painting, decoration of buildings, mosaic work, tapestry and carpet weaving, calico printing, dress, paper staining, printing, military clothing, illumination, landscape, and flower gardening, &c.
Author: Chevreul, M. E. (Michel Eugène)

Chevreul, M. E. (Michel Eugène)

Color

A.
    Aërial perspective, 83.
    Analogy, harmonies of, 48.
    Arabesques, varieties of, 164.
    Architecture, Egyptian, employment of colours in, 138;
      Greek, 139;
      Gothic, 141;
      application of colours to the interior of edifices, 143.
    Art, judgment which a spectator forms as to an object of, 225;
      associations of ideas connected therewith, 226.
    Arts, which address the eye by employing coloured materials,
          considered relatively, 218;
      as coloured tapestries, carpets, mosaics, &c. 219 _et seq._;
      coloured materials in flat tints, 224.
    Association of ideas in judging of a work of art, 226.
    Assortments of different colours, red, orange, yellow, green,
          blue, and violet, with white, black, and grey, 49 _et seq._;
      binary and tertiary, 50.
    Author’s inquiries, history of the, 201.

                              B.
    Beauvais, tapestries of, 102;
      difference of from the Gobelins, 113.
    Binary assortments of colours, 50, 59.
    Binary combinations of primary colours with black, 54, 55.
    Binary mixture of primary colours, 104.
    Black, juxtaposition of coloured bodies with, 19;
      assortments of different colours with, 54, 63 _et seq._;
      binary combinations of colours complementary with, 55;
      not complementary with, 56;
      its association with luminous colours, 64;
      inferior to white in certain assortments, 65.
    Black and white, effects of their juxtaposition, 19.
    Black draperies, 171.
    Blue, complementary to orange, 16, 17, 18, 20;
      placed beside greenish-blue, 25;
      subtracted from green and from violet, 44;
      its arrangement with a binary colour, 63.
    Blue and black, effects of juxtaposition of, 20;
      combinations of, 55.
    Blue and grey, effects of juxtaposition of, 22.
    Blue and orange, assortments of, with white, 51;
      with black, 55;
      with grey, 60.
    Blue and violet, assortments of with white, 53;
      with black, 58;
      with grey, 62.
    Blue and white, effects of their juxtaposition, 18.
    Blue draperies, 170.
    Blue light, modifications produced by, 71.
    Bonnets, coloured, effect of upon the complexion, 171-4;
      rose-coloured, 173;
      green, yellow, violet, sky-blue, and orange, 174;
      colours of, suited for fair-haired women, 175;
      for black hair, 176.
    Borders, coloured, of paper-hanging, 123;
      flowered, 130, 131, 133.
    Broken colours, 35.
    Browns of wool and silk employed in tapestry and carpets,
          effect of contrast on the, 208.

The laws of contrast of colour : $b and their application to the arts of painting, decoration of buildings, mosaic work, tapestry and carpet weaving, calico printing, dress, paper staining, printing, military clothing, illumination, landscape, and flower gardening, &c.

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