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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.Chevreul, M. E. (Michel Eugène)

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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

374. The modifications which black designs undergo upon different
coloured grounds are the following:—

Plate 13.

Upon _Red_ stuffs they appear Dark Green.

Upon _Orange_ stuffs they appear of a _Bluish-black_.

Upon _Yellow_ stuffs they appear _Black_, the violet tint of which is
very feeble, on account of the great contrast of tone.

Upon _Green_ stuffs they appear of a _Reddish-grey_.

Upon _Blue_ stuffs they appear of an _Orange-grey_.

Upon _Violet_ stuffs they appear of a _Greenish-yellow Grey_.

[Illustration: PLATE XIII.]

These examples are sufficient to enable us to comprehend their
advantage to the printer of patterns in colours complementary to the
colours of the ground, whenever contiguous tints are to be mutually
strengthened without going out of their respective scales.


DESIGNS FOR PAPER-HANGINGS.

375. The manufacture of paper-hangings has now arrived at such a point,
that a knowledge of the law of contrast of colours is indispensably
necessary to this branch of industry. We cannot estimate the true
relations between the law of contrast and the art of paper-staining
without dividing the papers into several categories to which the law is
applicable.

    1. Papers having figures and landscapes, or flowers of
       different sizes, and of varied colours, not intended
       for borders; these approach the nearest to painting.

    2. Papers with patterns of one colour, or of colours
       but slightly varied.

    3. Those employed as borders.




CHAPTER II.

    _On the Law of Simultaneous Contrast of Colours
        in relation to Paper-Hangings with Figures,
        Landscapes, or large Flowers of varied Colours._


376. The study which I recommend to artists occupied in fabricating
paper-hangings, is in some measure that immediately applicable to every
pictorial composition, or, in other words, the tapestry of figures
and landscapes. But, whatever be the merit of paper-hangings of this
category, they are not sought by persons of refined taste, and they do
not appear to me destined to be any more so in future, for the twofold
reason that the taste for arabesques, painted upon walls, or upon wood,
and that for lithographs, engravings, and paintings, is spreading every
day. These last three objects exclude, at least, all those papers with
figures and coloured landscapes.

377. The applications of the law of contrast to this class of
paper-hangings are easy, when we thoroughly understand the divisions of
the book to which I referred above. In order to prove the advantage to
be derived from the knowledge of this law, I need only refer to the bad
effect presented by contiguous bands of two tones of the same scale of
grey (serving as the ground to the figure of an infant), in consequence
of the contrast of tone arising from their juxtaposition (321).

378. _On the Law of Simultaneous Contrast of Colours in relation to
Paper-hangings with Designs in a Single Colour, or in Colours but
slightly varied._

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Science

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.

Chevreul, M. E. (Michel Eugène)

Color

374. The modifications which black designs undergo upon different
coloured grounds are the following:—

Plate 13.

Upon _Red_ stuffs they appear Dark Green.

Upon _Orange_ stuffs they appear of a _Bluish-black_.

Upon _Yellow_ stuffs they appear _Black_, the violet tint of which is
very feeble, on account of the great contrast of tone.

Upon _Green_ stuffs they appear of a _Reddish-grey_.

Upon _Blue_ stuffs they appear of an _Orange-grey_.

Upon _Violet_ stuffs they appear of a _Greenish-yellow Grey_.

[Illustration: PLATE XIII.]

These examples are sufficient to enable us to comprehend their
advantage to the printer of patterns in colours complementary to the
colours of the ground, whenever contiguous tints are to be mutually
strengthened without going out of their respective scales.


DESIGNS FOR PAPER-HANGINGS.

375. The manufacture of paper-hangings has now arrived at such a point,
that a knowledge of the law of contrast of colours is indispensably
necessary to this branch of industry. We cannot estimate the true
relations between the law of contrast and the art of paper-staining
without dividing the papers into several categories to which the law is
applicable.

    1. Papers having figures and landscapes, or flowers of
       different sizes, and of varied colours, not intended
       for borders; these approach the nearest to painting.

    2. Papers with patterns of one colour, or of colours
       but slightly varied.

    3. Those employed as borders.




CHAPTER II.

    _On the Law of Simultaneous Contrast of Colours
        in relation to Paper-Hangings with Figures,
        Landscapes, or large Flowers of varied Colours._


376. The study which I recommend to artists occupied in fabricating
paper-hangings, is in some measure that immediately applicable to every
pictorial composition, or, in other words, the tapestry of figures
and landscapes. But, whatever be the merit of paper-hangings of this
category, they are not sought by persons of refined taste, and they do
not appear to me destined to be any more so in future, for the twofold
reason that the taste for arabesques, painted upon walls, or upon wood,
and that for lithographs, engravings, and paintings, is spreading every
day. These last three objects exclude, at least, all those papers with
figures and coloured landscapes.

377. The applications of the law of contrast to this class of
paper-hangings are easy, when we thoroughly understand the divisions of
the book to which I referred above. In order to prove the advantage to
be derived from the knowledge of this law, I need only refer to the bad
effect presented by contiguous bands of two tones of the same scale of
grey (serving as the ground to the figure of an infant), in consequence
of the contrast of tone arising from their juxtaposition (321).

378. _On the Law of Simultaneous Contrast of Colours in relation to
Paper-hangings with Designs in a Single Colour, or in Colours but
slightly varied._

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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.

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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