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The Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colours and Their Applications to the Arts

work by Chevreul

Also known as: “De la loi du contraste simultané des couleurs”

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Delaunay’s Orphism painting development

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…contraste simultané des couleurs (1839; The Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colours and Their Applications to the Arts) by the chemist Michel-Eugène Chevreul. The Neo-Impressionist painter Georges Seurat had employed those theories in figurative and landscape compositions during the 1880s, but the Orphist style applied them in an abstract…
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