The principles of harmony and contrast of colours : and their applications to the arts / by M. E. Chevreul ; translated from the French by Charles Martel.
- Michel Eugène Chevreul
- Date:
- 1890
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Credit: The principles of harmony and contrast of colours : and their applications to the arts / by M. E. Chevreul ; translated from the French by Charles Martel. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![SECTION I. Interference of the law of simultaneous contrast of colours vnth the judgment we exercise upon all coloured bodies, viewed under the relation of the respective beauty or purity of the colour and of the equality of the distance of their respective tones, if these bodies belong to the same scale ........ 366 Introduction 367 Chapter I.—On the comparison of two patterns of the same colour . ib. Chapter II.—Influence of a surrounding colour upon one colour when compared with another colour 368 Chapter III.—On the effect of contrast upon the browns and the lights of most of the scales of wool and silk employed in tapestry and carpets 369 Chapter IV.—Means afforded by contrast by which we may become certain if the tones of a scale of colour are equidistant . 370 SECTION II. Interference of the law of simultaneous contrast of colours with our judgment on the productions of different arts which address the eyes by coloured materials 372 Introduction ........... 373 Chapter I.—Of the binary associations of colours considered critical]}' ib. Chapter II.—Of the complex associations of colours reviewed criti- cally ... 378 Chapter III.—Of the twofold influence presented under the critical point of view, that the physical condition of the coloured ma- terials employed in various arts, and the speciality of these arts, exercise upon the particular products of each of them. . . 380 § 1.—Of the arts of painting with coloured materials in a state of so-called infinite division, considered relatively to the physical state of these materials, and the speciality of the art employ- ing them ib. Article 1.— Painting in chiar'oscuro . . ... 381 Article 2.—Painting in flat tints 384 § 2.—Of the arts which address the eye by employing coloured materials of a certain size, considered relatively to the physical condition of these materials, and to the speci-ality of the art employing them . . . . . ' . . . . 386 Article 1.—Tapestries, carpets, mosaics, and coloured glass win- dows, corresponding to paintings in chiar'oscuro . . . 387 Article 2.—Tapestries, carpets, mosaics, and coloured glass win- dows, corresponding to painting in flat tints . . . 392](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21285676_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
