The W. Martin Johnson school of art. Elementary instruction in color, perspective, lights and shadows, pen drawing and composition (1909)
Johnson, William Martin, 1862- [from old catalog] · New York city · leaf 67
lumination they receive. It is not to beunderstood that a painting is made up of patches offlat tones in the way a decorator handles color. InRembrandts paintings, for instance, one can hardlydefine the area of a tone. While the dominant colorin his pictures may be a luminous golden brown,… … < QH < -^ cold tone, but Gainsborough in his Blue Boy painted the figure clad entirely in blue, though whenexamined the blue is seen to be interspersed withwarm greens and browns. The complexion of apicture by Corot may be pearly gray, but you willfind that he has not obtained it by mixing a…
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