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The enjoyment and use of color (1923)

Sargent, Walter, b. 1868 · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 211

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NEAR-COMPLEMENTS AND TRIADS 187 although all colors of the spectrum appear, reds, blues, and yellows are likely to predominate in the older canvases, while tones of violet and of orange, together with green, hold a correspondingly important place in modern art. The reds, yellows, and blues have by… … complementary triad. difference in general color effect of the new paintings as compared with the old, especially the prominence of violet and green in the new, is marked. When we mingle orange, green, and violet, we find the results quite dissimilar in general effect from what is pro- duced by…

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