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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

The green is less black, lighter, fresher, and purer, and its brown
tones redder than upon a white ground. With respect to its lighter
tones, I see them yellower, while, on the contrary, they appeared bluer
to three persons accustomed to observe colours. This difference, as I
at last found, arose from my comparing the general effect of leaves
upon a black ground with that of leaves upon a white ground; while the
other persons instituted their comparison more particularly upon the
browns and the light tones of green, placed upon the same ground. This
difference in the manner of seeing the same objects will be the subject
of some remarks hereafter.

Rose lighter, yellower than upon a white ground.

_Dark Red Ground._

408. Green more beautiful, less black, lighter than upon a white ground.

Rose more lilac, perhaps, than upon a white ground. The good effect of
the border upon this ground is due chiefly to the greatest part of the
rose not being contiguous to red, but to green; because the border and
the ground exhibit flowers, the rose of which contrasts with the green
of their leaves; while the same green contrasts with the red of the
ground, which is deeper and warmer than the colour of the flowers.

_Orange Ground._

409. The green lighter, a little bluer than upon a white ground.

Red much more violet than upon a white ground.

The general effect not agreeable.

_Yellow Ground._

410. Green bluer than upon a white ground.

Rose more violet, purer than upon a white ground.

The whole exhibits a good effect of contrast.

Green ground, the tone of which is nearly equal to that of the lights
of the leaves, and the hue of which is a little bluer.

Green of the leaves lighter, yellower than upon a white ground.

Rose fresher, purer, more velvety than upon a white ground.

[Illustration: PLATE XVII.]

Ground of an agreeable effect from harmony of analogy with the colour
of the leaves, and from harmony of contrast with the rose of the
flowers.

_Blue Ground._

411. Green lighter, more golden than upon a white ground.

Rose yellower, less fresh than upon a white ground.

Although the green leaves do not exactly produce a bad effect upon the
ground, yet the roses lose much of their freshness, and the appearance
of the whole is not agreeable.

_Violet Ground._

412. Green yellower, lighter than upon a white ground.

Rose faded.

If the ground does not injure the green of the leaves, yet it injures
the rose so much that it is not agreeable.


    4.—BORDER OF SIX INCHES IN BREADTH, REPRESENTING
        WHITE FLOWERS, AS CHINA ASTER, POPPY, LILY OF
        THE VALLEY, ROSES; SOME RED FLOWERS, AS THE
        ROSE-WALLFLOWER SOME SCARLET OR ORANGE, AS THE
        POPPY, POMEGRANATE, TULIP; BIGNONIA AND VIOLET
        FLOWERS, AS LILAC, VIOLETS, AND TULIPS WITH
        GREEN LEAVES.

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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)

Color

The green is less black, lighter, fresher, and purer, and its brown
tones redder than upon a white ground. With respect to its lighter
tones, I see them yellower, while, on the contrary, they appeared bluer
to three persons accustomed to observe colours. This difference, as I
at last found, arose from my comparing the general effect of leaves
upon a black ground with that of leaves upon a white ground; while the
other persons instituted their comparison more particularly upon the
browns and the light tones of green, placed upon the same ground. This
difference in the manner of seeing the same objects will be the subject
of some remarks hereafter.

Rose lighter, yellower than upon a white ground.

_Dark Red Ground._

408. Green more beautiful, less black, lighter than upon a white ground.

Rose more lilac, perhaps, than upon a white ground. The good effect of
the border upon this ground is due chiefly to the greatest part of the
rose not being contiguous to red, but to green; because the border and
the ground exhibit flowers, the rose of which contrasts with the green
of their leaves; while the same green contrasts with the red of the
ground, which is deeper and warmer than the colour of the flowers.

_Orange Ground._

409. The green lighter, a little bluer than upon a white ground.

Red much more violet than upon a white ground.

The general effect not agreeable.

_Yellow Ground._

410. Green bluer than upon a white ground.

Rose more violet, purer than upon a white ground.

The whole exhibits a good effect of contrast.

Green ground, the tone of which is nearly equal to that of the lights
of the leaves, and the hue of which is a little bluer.

Green of the leaves lighter, yellower than upon a white ground.

Rose fresher, purer, more velvety than upon a white ground.

[Illustration: PLATE XVII.]

Ground of an agreeable effect from harmony of analogy with the colour
of the leaves, and from harmony of contrast with the rose of the
flowers.

_Blue Ground._

411. Green lighter, more golden than upon a white ground.

Rose yellower, less fresh than upon a white ground.

Although the green leaves do not exactly produce a bad effect upon the
ground, yet the roses lose much of their freshness, and the appearance
of the whole is not agreeable.

_Violet Ground._

412. Green yellower, lighter than upon a white ground.

Rose faded.

If the ground does not injure the green of the leaves, yet it injures
the rose so much that it is not agreeable.


    4.—BORDER OF SIX INCHES IN BREADTH, REPRESENTING
        WHITE FLOWERS, AS CHINA ASTER, POPPY, LILY OF
        THE VALLEY, ROSES; SOME RED FLOWERS, AS THE
        ROSE-WALLFLOWER SOME SCARLET OR ORANGE, AS THE
        POPPY, POMEGRANATE, TULIP; BIGNONIA AND VIOLET
        FLOWERS, AS LILAC, VIOLETS, AND TULIPS WITH
        GREEN LEAVES.

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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.

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