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The Wallace Span Classsearchtermspan Classsearchtermcollectionspan
Frank Vane Phipson Rutter
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He was probably the first of modern painters to study colour scientific- ally : to ask of a red, for example, not merely whether it was light or dark but whether it ap- proached orange or purple. He studied the magnum opjis of the great scientist Chevreuil on colour, but he based his practice far more on his own observations than on scientific theories. When he was in Morocco he wrote in his journal about shadows on the faces of two peasant boys he had seen, and remarked that whereas the sallow..., yellow-faced boy had violet shadows, the ruddy-faced one had green shadows. He began that research into the colour of shadows the expression of which has been the supreme achievement of modern painting. All colour, we now know, is relative, not absolute, and depends on many things : the colour of the light, the distance of the object from the eye, and 92 MODERN FRENCH PAINTINGS its surroundings. The colour of an object close to the eye is what we call local colour ; for example, the white of the newly fallen snow on the ground just beneath us.
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