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Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics

Color is a plastic means of creating intervals… color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony. – Hans Hofmann

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