Howard, Frank: Colour, as a means of art: being an adaptation of the experience of professors to the practice of amateurs (London, 1838)

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INTRODUCTION.

—Contrasted by those which are the most
opposite, as blues by orange or browns, reds by
green, yellows by purples:

— Balanced when by opposition they are so
neutralized that no one appears principal or
predominant.

The author of a recent publication on Colour, is
quite in error, when in describing technical terms,
he states " the Balance of Colouring is the harmony
produced by supporting one colour by another in-
troduced in different parts of the picture, either of
the same colour, or one approaching to it." This
is spreading a colour through the picture, and
though it may contribute to the balance of colour-
ing by contrasting and neutralizing the other colours
in the work, it is in itself the very opposite of the
balance of colouring, as it consists entirely in
loading one side of the beam. To this it may be
added that colours are said to be supported by
similar tints adjacent and echoed by them when
" in different parts of the picture."

There are many other errors in the book
above-mentioned, but as this is not intended
to be a controversial disquisition, those mistakes
only will be noticed which might otherwise
lead to confusion, but to the correction.