Sargent, Walter, b. 1868 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 86
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 color 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 top of the black disk, is the point at which the eye looks until fatigued. In B, the shaded portion indicates the area of apparently heightened inten- sity of the ( i..Jor»disk after the black disk is removed. devoid of color…
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