# Color problems

Author: Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes, 1842-1939

Genre: Color

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77736

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Color+problems+Vanderpoel&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The relation of color to light is much the same as that of music to sound. Color has its many hues, its long scales of tints and shades, its true and its false chords. Mere sound gives us but little pleasure; when developed, however, into its highest form, music, we are thrilled, as by the song of a bird, a favorite ballad, or a Beethoven Symphony. So in light, our enjoyment culminates at the glories of color in a flower or a sunset, at the shadows that play over the hills, or at the varied hues of a salt marsh. Hence we may aptly term color _the music of light_; and when we think of the wonderful ways in which it has been used and combined by painters and designers for hundreds of years,...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/color-problems-77736/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/color-problems-77736/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/color-problems-77736/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/color-problems-77736/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/color-problems-77736/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/color-problems-77736/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/color-problems-77736/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/color-problems-77736/chapters/6/index.md)