Some principles of every-day art: introductory chapters on the arts not fine (1890)
Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, Batsford · leaf 147
trically sub-divided into small spaces, with care that no twocolours impinge; sugar with orientalism, flavourwith conventionality at discretion, and serve upboldly in the form of ornamental art! But howis one to arrive at a pure primary colour ? Ourpigments do not approach the purity of the… … THEORY thatcolour should al-ways emphasiseform will notbear examination.That that is oneuse to which col-our may be put is obvious.To insist, however, that thedevelopment of form is theone and only function of colour,is more than rash. One maybe permitted so to distribute colour as to emphasiseonly…
Decoration and ornament
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