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Also: [[underlined]] the bluegreen shadows or greenblue shadows (Eigenschatten) demand rose or violett reflex light. [[/underlined]] Also: the shadow parts call for great light around them in the sky as on the earth etc. There is nothing more pictorial than the "backgrounds" of Italian Renaissance pictures. A poster or advertising colorite is a [[underlined]] strong effect [[/underlined]], hitting the passer-by with [[underlined]] the idea [[/underlined]] of the stage-play. But what else is in its essence the pictorial impression of a landscape?
I made a small color sketch of it: The sky and water green and not too pale, the shadows much viol reflex, the red houses very strong, the bank rose orange, its shadows greenblue; finally scraping white spots on all lit parts. This colorite is quite good. Oct 29[[22?]] I revisited Mt Vernon and studied the scen; the shadows, owing to lower course of sun, are much different, the green foliage gone. The whole looked little interesting: The sky is pale impure blue N, no trace of green in it, the lower part has a smoky air and a decidedly lilac impression. On going home, I saw South a very strong roseviolet large horizon (cloud, quite flat, City fog) under a pale ceruleum sky which, though it contained warm light (East, SE.) could not be called green. However, later, after sunset, West, there appeared a perfectly [[underlined]] green sky virid [[/underlined]] + au + [[double underlined]] w [[/double underlined]] in which fiery light scarlet vermilion (cadm or) clouds floated, the sky color however leaving a blue rather than green [[underlined]] impression [[/underlined]] (the impression I call the hue at a sudden total glance). The river had an indefinite greenblue - white color, containing much pale yelloworange reflex light, and purple tones in foreground

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