Art Appreciation, Color and Light, Roles of Color and Light in Artwork

It takes many elements to create attractive, eye catching, one of a kind pieces of artwork. I feel that light and color are two of the more important factors that really bring art alive. Art comes alive in many forms, shapes, sizes, and yes, colors. Color and light gives depth, style, it sets a mood, awakens your imagination and expands your sense of being. Color and light gives way to forms and shapes that set the senses.
The Impressionists were concerned with capturing the effect of color and light. They banished black and earth colors from the palettes and used the pure colors of the visible spectrum and the effects of light itself to create many other depths, colors, and hues. They dabble colors to mix them, now mixing them, not mixing them before placement on the canvas. This gave a wide range of colors that are the combinations of color vibrations.
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