... violet to red, that black is the reversal of the colour due to its ability to absorb all rays of colour, and that pure white and black exist only in theory . Even a surface that appears to be white to us has the slightest tint of yellow, purple or red; likewise, even the dimmest black has tints of colour in it. It was the awareness of all these details that ... led the Impressionists into excluding black from their ... paintings; discard earthly tones and deal almost solely with the seven colours that comprise the solar spectrum. This change, that was about to ... ...

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