The theory of color in its relation to art and art-industry (1876)
Bezold, Wilhelm von, Koehler, S. R. (Sylvester Rosa), 1837-1900, Pickering, Edward C. (Edward Charles), 1846-1919 · Boston, L. Prang and Company · leaf 162
to be almost an impossibility. If we divide the rotating disk into two parts, and thenpaint one half with any one color, and the other half eitherwith white or with black or withneutral gray, all the colors producedby rotation will be of the same valuein a mixture. One and the samecolor is capable… … 120 THE THEOEY OF COLOE. colored and the other half supplying white, two grays, andpure black. While the mixture with white almost absorbsthe color, the black exercises but a slight influence. Our eye, therefore, has no standard whatever by which tomeasure the value of a color in a mixture, and…
Color · Decoration and ornament · Painting
Internet Archive · Clark Art Institute Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.