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of colour

Adjective

Meaning

of colour (not comparable)

Alternative spelling of of color

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant. All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces, the immediate presence of terror and fear. Adolph Gottlieb

I always urged my contemporaries to look for interest and inspiration to the development and study of drawing, but they would not listen. They thought the road to salvation lay by the way of colour. Edgar Degas

Anyone who knows of a provable instance of colour discrimination ought always to expose it. George Orwell

Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour. Horace

We [The Futurists] stand for a use of colour free from the imitation of objects and things as coloured objects. We stand for an aerial vision in which the material of colour is expressed in all of the manifold possibilities our subjectivity can create. Carlo Carrà

Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise the whole of their experience in a few strokes and blobs of colour. Kenneth Clark

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