Goethe's Theory of Colours by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

PART VI.

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EFFECT OF COLOUR WITH REFERENCE TO MORAL ASSOCIATIONS. Yellow Red-Yellow Yellow-Red Blue Red-Blue Blue-Red Red Green Completeness and Harmony Characteristic Combinations Yellow and Blue Yellow and Red Blue and Red Yellow-Red and Blue-Red Combinations Non-Characteristic Relation of the Combinations to Light and Dark Considerations derived from the Evidence of Experience and History Æsthetic Influence Chiaro-Scuro Tendency to Colour Keeping Colouring Colour in General Nature Colour of Particular Objects Characteristic Colouring Harmonious Colouring Genuine Tone False Tone Weak Colouring The Motley Dread of Theory Ultimate Aim Grounds Pigments Allegorical, Symbolical, Mystical Application of Colour Concluding Observations OUTLINE OF A THEORY OF COLOURS. "Si vera nostra sunt aut falsa, erunt talia, licet nostra per vitam defendimus. Post fata nostra pueri qui nunc ludunt nostri judices erunt."