# What exactly does Chevreul's book list as the harmonies of analogy and of contrast and as good and bad assortments with white, black and grey, and which of those statements does he himself label as personal taste?

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In the 1855 Martel translation Chevreul sorts colour harmony into two kinds with three members each (analogy: scale, hues, dominant coloured light; contrast: of scale, of hues, of colours) and then gives ranked assortments of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet with white, black and grey. His 'first proposition' is that the complementary assortment is best in harmonies of contrast, with tones of equal height, and he pairs complements as red-green, blue-orange and yellow-violet. He says twice that the ranked assortments are not scientific rules but his 'peculiar idea[s]'; the 1861 Spanton translation renders the same passages as 'peculiar taste'. Neither English text in the OCR contains the words triad, tetrad or split complement.

In the 1855 Martel translation Chevreul sorts colour harmony into two kinds with three members each (analogy: scale, hues, dominant coloured light; contrast: of scale, of hues, of colours) and then gives ranked assortments of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet with white, black and grey. His 'first proposition' is that the complementary assortment is best in harmonies of contrast, with tones of equal height, and he pairs complements as red-green, blue-orange and yellow-violet. He says twice that the ranked assortments are not scientific rules but his 'peculiar idea[s]'; the 1861 Spanton translation renders the same passages as 'peculiar taste'. Neither English text in the OCR contains the words triad, tetrad or split complement.

Curator qualifications: Verified the self-labelled taste status in both translations, the complement-first proposition and the absence of 'triad' in both texts (OCR/Gutenberg whole-text search; OCR misses possible).

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://archive.org/download/principlesharmo00martgoog/principlesharmo00martgoog_djvu.txt",
      "note": "Part II (236)-(237), whole-text; (236)-(237), whole-text"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/76939/pg76939.txt",
      "note": "Part II (236)-(237), whole-text; (236)-(237), whole-text"
    }
  ]
}
```

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- [sourced_fact] In the 1855 Martel translation Chevreul sorts colour harmony into two kinds with three members each (analogy: scale, hues, dominant coloured light; contrast: of scale, of hues, of colours) and then gives ranked assortments of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet with white, black and grey. His 'first proposition' is that the complementary assortment is best in harmonies of contrast, with tones of equal height, and he pairs complements as red-green, blue-orange and yellow-violet. He says twice that the ranked assortments are not scientific rules but his 'peculiar idea[s]'; the 1861 Spanton translation renders the same passages as 'peculiar taste'. Neither English text in the OCR contains the words triad, tetrad or split complement. · locator: Part II (236)-(237), whole-text; (236)-(237), whole-text · source: https://archive.org/download/principlesharmo00martgoog/principlesharmo00martgoog_djvu.txt

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