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The enjoyment and use of color (1923)

Sargent, Walter, b. 1868 · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 88

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THE ENJOYMENT AND USE OF COLOR 70 at their greatest keenness. For this reason neutral areas in a design increase the apparent intensity of adjoining coloi areas. When a piece of color is so low in intensity that we are not certain what the hue really is, if we place it beside a neutral gray the… … Fig. 7. A shows a color disk partly covered by a black disk. C, at the toj of the black disk, is the point at which the eye looks until fatigued. Ii B, the shaded portion indicates the area of apparently heightened inten sity of the cUor disk after the black disk is removed. devoid of color enables…

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