The enjoyment and use of color / by Walter Sargent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sargent, Walter, b. 1868.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Color.

Physical Description:

ix, 274 p. : ill. (part col.) ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Dover Publications, c1964.

Contents:

Importance of color

Color sensations

Color aids perception

External causes of color sensations

Reflection, transmission, and selective absorption

Color perceptions

Color blindness

Effect of colors on emotions

Symbolism of colors

Warm and cool hues

Advancing and retreating colors

Color values and intensities

A scale of neutral values

Qualities of white and black

Relation of black to warm and of white to cool colors

Importance of middle gray

Colors at full intensity

Effect of mixing neutrals with colors

Effects of high and low illumination upon colors

Artistic possibilities of only one hue with neutrals

Experiments with values and intensities

Complementary colors

After-images

Mixtures of paints compared with combinations of lights

Characterisitc effects possible with complementary colors: increase of intensity by contrast; reduction of intensity by mingling

Experiments with complementary colors

Composite colors

Complexity of the hues of nature

Some characterisitics of pleasing colors

Artistic importance of color gradations

Frequency of adjacent hues in nature

Characteristic effects possible with adjacent hues: brilliancy; softness; movement towards or away from light; modelling

Effect of multiple reflections in increasing intensity

Mixture of adjacent hues selected at varying intervals

Experiments with adjacent colors

Near-complements and triads

Near complements compared with complements

Relation between near complements and triads

Four typical triads and their characteristics

Summary of color groups

Experiments with triads

Color harmonies

Relation of physics and optics to artistic preferences

Brilliant colors not necessarily crude

Some ways of relating colors harmoniously

The harmonizing effect of reflections and after-images

Effect of character of patterns upon color relations

Color values a factor in color harmony

Color harmony in art and in nature

Some methods of relating inharmonious hues

Experiments in harmonizing colors

Color in nature and art

The hues of plants, animals, and insects

Colors of inorganic substances

Color expresses moods of nature

Use of color in painting

Three typical methods in oil-painting

Experiments with effects of oil-paints

The representation of sunlight

A scientifically arranged palette.

Notes:

"Corrected and revised republication of the work first published ... in 1923."

Local Notes:

Athenaeum's copy bears bookplate: "From the library of May Kinzer."

Athenaeum copy: Ex libris Andrew Craig Morrison.

ISBN:

048620944X

9780486209449

OCLC:

6556133