Word: toning
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...date has been set, provisionally, for March 15. The play has not yet been selected. A few features, as souvenir programs and the like, will lend the occasion a distinctive tone...
...years, according to the Indian legend, he studied the existing systems without getting any satisfaction from them. At last an "illumination" came to him which was the basis of future Buddhistic theory. It was expressed in a sort of psalm, full of the elaborate wording and solemn tone of the oriental style. Three immutable "facts" were laid down concerning the "constituents of being;" first, that they were "transitory;" secondly, "miserable;" third, "lacking in the ego." As the doctrine of faith and works may be considered the characteristic of Christ's religion, so knowledge was the basis of Buddha's teaching...
...governs the whole subject of composition, and that is the law of relation of the greater and lesser masses in a picture. The eye is first attracted by the greatest contrast, the greatest dark against the greatest light or vice versa, and then seeks another contrast more moderate in tone, and so on until the story of the painting is told. If this law is not strictly observed, and if the object which is second or third in importance is made in the greatest contrast of color, the purpose of the painter is defeated, and the mind of the observer...
...printed page. The first two of these requisites were found in A. W. Drake, who has perhaps done more for engraving than any other manwho ever lived, and the last was found in "Scribner's Monthly," which later became the "Century." The next improvement in engraving was the half-tone process, invented by Professor Vogel of Berlin, by which it was made possible to reproduce not only drawings in black and white, but also in wash...
...that it is almost entirely in black and white. Americans have no time to learn to be masters of color. What is needed for that is long periods of doing nothing but absorbing the beauty of nature, studying sunsets and color effects. What all modern illustrators aim at is "tone," that is to say, effects in black and white...