The first in its dark deep state, the latter in its light attenuated tint and thus the dignity of age and the amiableness of youth may adorn itself with degrees of the same hue. It conveys an impression of gravity and dignity, and at the same time of grace and attractiveness. The effect of this colour is as peculiar as its nature. We have remarked a constant progress or augmentation in yellow and blue, and seen what impressions were produced by the various states hence it may naturally be inferred that now, in the junction of the deepened extremes a feeling of satisfaction must succeed and thus, in physical phenomena, this highest of all appearances of colour arises from the junction of two contrasted extremes which have gradually prepared themselves for a union.Īs a pigment, on the other hand, it presents itself to us already formed, and is most perfect as a hue in cochineal a substance which, however, by chemical action may be made to tend to the plus or the minus side, and may be considered to have attained the central point in the best carmine. Whoever is acquainted with the prismatic origin of red will not think it paradoxical if we assert that this colour partly actu, partly potentia, includes all the other colours. When blue partakes in some degree of the pltis side, the effect is not disagreeable. The appearance of objects seen through a blue glass is gloomy and melancholy. Rooms which are hung with pure blue, appear in some degree larger, but at the same time empty and cold. We have before spoken of its affinity with black. Its appearance, then, is a kind of contradiction between excitement and repose.Īs the upper sky and distant mountains appear blue, so a blue surface seems to retire from us.īut as we readily follow an agreeable object that flies from us, so we love to contemplate blue - not because it advances to us, but because it draws us after it.īlue gives us an impression of cold, and thus, again, reminds us of shade. As a hue it is powerful - but it is on the negative side, and in its highest purity is, a& it were, a stimulating negation. This colour has a peculiar and almost indescribable effect on the eye. They produce a restless, susceptible, anxious impression.Īs yellow is always accompanied with light, so it may be said that blue still brings a principle of darkness with it. ![]() The colours on the minus side are blue, red-blue, and blue-red. I have known men of education to whom its effect was intolerable if they chanced to see a person dressed in a scarlet cloak on a grey, cloudy day. A yellow-red cloth disturbs and enrages animals. It produces an extreme excitement, and still acts thus when somewhat darkened. ![]() In looking steadfastly at a perfectly yellow-red surface, the colour seems actually to penetrate the organ. Among savage nations the inclination for it has been universally remarkedy and when children^ left to themselves, begin to use tints, they never spare vermilion and minium. The active side is here in its highest energy, and it is not to be wondered at that impetuous, robust, uneducated men, should be especially pleased with this colour. The agreeable, cheerful sensation which red-yellow excites increases to an intolerably powerful impression in bright yellow-red. To this impression the yellow hats of bankrupts and the yellow circles on the mantles of Jews, may have owed their origin.Īs pure yellow passes very easily to red-yellow, so the deepening of this last to yellow-red is not to be arrested. By a slight and scarcely perceptible change, the beautiful impression of fire and gold is transformed into one not undeserving the epithet foul and the colour of honour and joy reversed to that of ignominy and aversion. When a yellow colour is communicated to dull and coarse surfaces^ such as common cloth, felt, or the like, on which it does not appear with full energy, the disagreeable effect alluded to is apparent. Thus, the colour of sulphur, which inclines to green, has a something unpleasant in it. State is agreeable and gladdening, and in its utmost power is serene and noble, it is, on the other hand, extremely liable to contamination, and produces a very disagreeable effect if it is sullied, or in some degree tends to the minus side. In its highest purity it always carries with it the nature of brightness, and has a serene, gay, softly exciting character. ![]() ![]() How the chemical yellow develops itself in and upon the white, has been circumstantially described in its proper place. In prismatic experiments it extends itself alone and widely in the light space, and while the two poles remain separated from each other, before it mixes with blue to produce green it is to be seen in its utmost purity and beauty. It appears on the slightest mitigation of light, whether by semi-transparent mediums or faint reflection from white surfaces.
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