This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...harmonize with 3 of yellow. Owen Jones is considered one of the best authorities upon ornament. From his "Grammar of Ornament" the following propositions relating to color are taken: "Color is used to assist in the development of form, and to distinguish objects or parts of objects, one from another." "Color is used to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...harmonize with 3 of yellow. Owen Jones is considered one of the best authorities upon ornament. From his "Grammar of Ornament" the following propositions relating to color are taken: "Color is used to assist in the development of form, and to distinguish objects or parts of objects, one from another." "Color is used to assist light and shade, helping the undulations of form by the proper distribution of the several colors." "These objects are best attained by the use of the primary colors on small surfaces and in small quantities, balanced and supported by the secondary and tertiary colors on the larger masses." "The primary colors should be used on the upper portions of objects, the secondary and tertiary on the lower." "When a primary tinged with another primary is contrasted with a secondary, the secondary must have a hue of the third primary." "In using the primary colors on moulded surfaces, we should place blue, which retires, on the concave surfaces; yellow, which advances, on the convex; and red, the intermediate color, on the under sides, separating the colors by white on the vertical planes." "The various colors should be so blended that the objects colored, when viewed at a distance, should present a neutralized bloom." "No composition can ever be perfect in which any one of the three primary colors is wanting, either in its natural state or in combination." "When two tones of the same color are juxtaposed, the light color will appear lighter, and the dark color darker." "When two different colors are juxtaposed, they receive a double modification; first, as to their tone (the light color appearing lighter, and the dark color appearing darker)...
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