Goethe's Theory of Colours by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
PART VI.
124 words | Chapter 7
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."
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