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The theory of color in its relation to art and art-industry (1876)

Bezold, Wilhelm von, Pickering, Edward C. (Edward Charles), 1846-1919 · Boston : L.Prang · leaf 276

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upon a dark ground, the shaded side upon a light ground. The first of these principles is employed comparatively but seldom, for an object treated as a silhouette is apt to look flat, although it is very easy to make it stand out from the ground. The second method may be found in almost every… … the great artists of the Nether- lands in the seventeenth century.

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