 In a narrower sense a mass of shadow lighted by reflexes is often thus designated ; but we here use the expression in its first and more general sense. 851. The separation of light and dark from all appearance of colour is possible and necessary. The...  Goethe's Theory of Colours - Page 329by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1840 - 423 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Sir Charles Lock Eastlake - Color - 1840 - 486 pages
...representation, light and shade, with which the appearance of colour is immediately connected. CHIARO-8CURO. 849. We apply the term chiaro-scuro (Helldunkel) to...light and shade inform us as to degrees of density. We have here to consider the highest light, the middle tint, and the shadow, and in the last the shadow... | |
 | Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - Philosophy - 1992 - 414 pages
...doing he created an opportunity that is intriguingly described by Goethe in his treatise on colour: The separation of light and dark from all appearance...and making himself acquainted with it in its whole extent."1 Has Plato then solved the mystery of imitation (das Ratsel der Darstellung) by setting his... | |
 | John Gage - Aesthetics - 1999 - 344 pages
...in colours. It was an experiment which lay behind the traditional view expressed in the Theory that 'The separation of light and dark from all appearance...possible and necessary. The artist will solve the mystery ot imitation sootier by first considering light and dark independently of colour, and making himself... | |
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