A study of the artist's way of working in the various handicrafts and arts of design (1905)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 113
FLAT PAINTING IN ANTIQUITY yards of plastering in mural paintings, indeed, have been, and are annually covered by color applied in gradation by hue1 or by tint2 or both ; but this amount is as nothing to the acres of surface of stone, stucco, plaster, wood, and stretched paper, upon … Fig. 148. Egyptian mural painting (From Prisse d'Avennes, " L'Art Egyptien ") which color has been laid in the form of flat, uni- form, ungraded painting. Thus when, as in Chapter 1 Hue : the characteristic color-quality. Thus the " soft " or " cool " blue of some Chinese silks comes of their being…
Art · Decorative arts
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