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* ‘"Aesthetics: Art is harmony, Harmony is the analogy of contraries, the analogy of similarities in tone (“ton”), color (“teinte”), and line considered under the aspect of the dominant one and under the influence of lighting in gay, calm or sad combinations.

The Contraries are:

in tone, a lighter, more luminous one in place of a darker;

in color, complementaries, that is, a certain red opposed to its complementary, red-green, orange-blue, yellow-violet, etc.;

In line, those making a right angle.

Gaiety, in tones obtained through the use of dominant luminosity;

in color, of prevailing warmth;

in line, through those above the horizontal.

Calmness, in tone, is the equality of light and dark;

in color, of warm and cool;

and the horizontal for line.

Sadness, in tone, is prevailing dark;

in color, a prevailing cool one;

and in line, directions downward from the horizontal.

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**** – ibid [Encyclopaedia of Visual Art 5:806]

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