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Goethe’s Theory of Colours

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Yellow and Red

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This is a somewhat preponderating combination, but it has a serene and magnificent effect. The two extremes of the active side are seen together without conveying any idea of progression from one to the other. As the result of their combination in pigments is yellow-red, so they in some degree represent this colour.

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