jan 17, 1867 - Charles Blanc’s Grammaire des arts du dessin

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“A canvas… is essentially a flat surface, covered with colors, assembled in a certain order.”
-Charles Blanc, The Grammaire, 1879

“Art is Harmony. Harmony is the analogy of contrary and similar elements of tone, of color, and of line, considered according to their dominants and under the influence of light, in gay, calm, or sad combinations. … Gaiety of tone is given by the luminous dominant; of color, by the warm dominant; of line, by lines above the horizontal.”

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