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Show I FEUMDGDLOR By LIONEL ROBERTSON-M' ROBERTSON-M' There is probabh no subject on 1 n whnh there is more urn r-r.i 1 ignorance J than the .subje-et of color. We seem to V. have a national appreciation of sound in music, but our color sense as a na-' na-' J tlon seems lo be yet unirained When J wc realize thar ilu- s,iine relations hold I Rood in color as in music, we can b n 3 have color :uiik.s and choruses, which I 'will be as much appreciated as our I sense of music- After all it is the stim-, stim-, f ulant which w e receive from color as j Mf well as from music which counts. There is i general opinion tha' loud1 .colors, "b.. which is meant strong, pure p colors-, are ulgar, while the colors of I loud tone mixed with gres indicate re-1 beqw linemen t. This i? not necessarilj true. i The ro-culbd "soft' colors. which tiai mean that the;, an very much mi.-.' I igjUl with nr. y. are usually Um result ot little Jcar ilsU;,l' rcpi' sent a i eilain t blurring of if' ts which disguise ih Irj Incccurac;, Kvery nKht minded ind i -u l ! vidiial finds mucli iimnlant in nat- I I ural . c.ii ry Her- v. f ind color free i ami pun We find the sky wnh broad ilftt ' exPan;"r- 01 unbroken blue, ihe hill 117 il sides green with trees, and tin- fields i yellow with r'pening grain Whv should veilow or other colors srem ifc ; - loud and vulgar lo us indoors, when na'ure use? them so lavishly? The - . answer i.-, that thev .ir not ulgar if ' related in an intelligent manner The trouble Ufa not. in the use of strong colors, but In our endeavor to com- bine these colors in tones that cannot 'combine, .md often the texture, such as a hard glazed finish, read;, gives us the harsh effect for which we place the responibilii "ii the color. To become sensitive to beautiful color, i one must begin u, 'hluk consc lent ious-j ious-j ly in terms of color, to see color :n l ever thing, to study those colors which harmonize, to visit pic ture gal I lories and museums; in oilier words, to become sinsiihe 'o concord in color, tiie same as a ! iusl inn ben mcs j j I soasiti to harmony in music by J const, ..i-.l' ii-.tiini,' the oesr music Then, too, one rs able to express his 1. temperament so effective!, in the use of color. When one has a rich he arty t na".ir- I'm expresses himself in rich, arty colors; a more restrained. Bhiinking nature in a more1 suitable IbacUground when surrounded with colors ot low tones and mixed with much cr nn |