The theory of color in its relation to art and art-industry (1876)
Bezold, Wilhelm von, 1837-1907, Pickering, Edward C. (Edward Charles), 1846-1919 · Boston : L. Prang and Co. · leaf 271
the third. The very first figurein this work, for instance (see p. 9), is an illustration of it. Every photographer, who placesa gray background of mediumbrightness behind the personwhose portrait he is about totake, makes use of this method.The third principle, however,of which Fig. 61 is an… … THE THEORY OF COLOR. 231 Simple as these various methods of distributing light andshade may appear to be, it yet required a very long time tobring them gradually to the knowledge of the artists. Thesecond and third, indeed, were already clearly enunciated byLionakdo, but the silhouette proper came…
Color · Decoration and ornament · Painting
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