A Treatise on Painting/Chapter 210

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Chap. CCX.—Of Back-grounds.

To give a great effect to figures, you must oppose to a light one a dark ground, and to a dark figure a light ground, contrasting white with black, and black with white. In general, all contraries give a particular force and brilliancy of effect by their opposition[1].

  1. ↑ See the preceding chapter, and chap. cc.

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