when all the colours are exhibited together in due balance.
886.
In this way the splendid as well as the agreeable may be produced; both of these, however, have of necessity a certain generalised effect, and in this sense may be considered the reverse of the characteristic.
887.
This is the reason why the colouring of most modern painters is without character, for, while they follow their general instinctive feeling only, the last result of such a tendency must be mere completeness; this, they more or less attain, but thus at the same time neglect the characteristic impression which the subject might demand.
888.
But if the principles before alluded to are kept in view, it must be apparent that a distinct style of colour may be adopted