Color in Everyday Life: A Manual for Lay Students, Artisans and Artists; the Principles of Color Combination and Color Arrangement, and Their Applications in Dress, Home, Business, the Theatre and Community PlayMoffat, Yard, 1918 - 343 páginas |
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Página 210 - Perhaps in the same way it might amuse you to send us any pattern of wall paper that might strike you as cheap, pretty, and suitable for a room in a hot and extremely bright climate. It should be borne in mind that our climate can be extremely dark too. Our sitting-room is to be in varnished wood.
Página 210 - I'll be hanged if I can describe this red — it's not Turkish and it's not Roman and it's not Indian, but it seems to partake of the two last and yet it can't be either of them because it ought to be able to go with vermilion.
Página 210 - I should rather like to see some patterns of unglossy — well, I'll be hanged if I can describe this red — it's not Turkish and it's not Roman and it's not Indian, but it seems to partake of the two last and yet it can't be either of them because it ought to be able to go with vermilion. Ah, what a tangled web we weave — anyway, with what brains you have left choose me and send me some — many — patterns of this exact shade.
Página 306 - From the convent we passed the humble church of St. Antonio, and thence onward and upward through a continuous series of vineyards, all sheltered from the chilling effects of the north winds, by the heights to which we were tending. The orange-tree was bending under its golden burden ; the bannana...
Página 249 - ... for example, would be lacking in the rhythmic quality which would come from a repetition of that note in a touch of color in the hat, beads or flowers. The eye takes pleasure in being led by graded steps from note to note.
Página 15 - In fact, we shall see that in the case of the browneyed, a dark brown would, in many cases, be taboo. Here, then, in this one short summary of the whole of women's conscious knowledge of color, the need of a new attitude and a more scientific approach becomes apparent.
Página 173 - ... have 1 active hunter; 6 others have 2, while the remaining 3 have the maximum of 3 active hunters. In contrast, only 5 of the 43 winter hunting-groups of the Berens River Ojibwa have a single hunter, while 15 have 3, 6 have 4, 6 have 5, and the two largest groups of all have 10 active hunters each. In the first place it may be pointed out that there is nothing in the economic culture of these people to motivate the accumulation of large tracts of land. The products of the land are a primary source...
Página 312 - ... the ceiling, adding a touch of brilliancy. The contrasting of colors is so harmoniously accomplished that the result is exceedingly artistic. Thus the beauty of this monument of decorative art is visible at night as well as by daylight, which is too often not the case. There are many other interesting applications of color which make this beautiful work of art a mecca for those interested in color lighting.
Página 188 - In other words colors are higher or lower in value as they are lighter or darker. Two colors may differ in hue and yet be the same in value.
Página 246 - Vermeer uses a yellow, and passing it through a few gradations from a dull to a brilliant gold stirs us as a violinist might by the beauty of his modulations.