Some principles of every-day art: introductory chapters on the arts not fine (1890)
Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, Batsford · leaf 149
Old Chinese embroidery, the forms only a vehicle for colour. All that can safely be asserted is, that in anyscheme of colour there should be strict relationbetween its quality, its quantity, and its place i3( Every-day Art. —that is to say, the quality of colour will bedetermined by the area it… … Strongly defined form. or in shadow, and so on. The contrast betweenCapricornus, above, and his background is none toosharp for the dark corner the panel was designedto occupy. No need of much philosophy to tell us that the Form and Coloiir. 137 cruder a colour the less we must use of it, and…
Decoration and ornament
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