Blanc, Charles, 1813-1882 · New York : Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge [Mass.] : Riverside Press · leaf 178
is the reciprocalheightening of complementary colors in juxtaposi-tion that M. Chevreul called The law of simulta-neous contrast of colors? But these same colors that heighten each other byjuxtaposition, destroy each other by mixture. If youplace red and green in equal quantities and of… … Turquoise. BLUE. Campanula. Violet. See Frontispiece for colored diagram. PAINTING. 153 orange, or violet and yellow. This annihilation ofcolors is called achromatism. Achromatism is also produced if we mingle inequal quantities, the three primitive colors, yellow,red, blue. If we pass a ray of…
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