Vermeer’s favorite colors
Six paintings. One concept
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Vermeer achieves a serene, intimate, delicate atmosphere in his works, and this is mainly due to the attitude of the characters and the virtuosity of the artist in the handling of lighting. But there is something that also contributes to the delicacy, to the exquisiteness of the image: the novel and daring combination of certain colors that we see in much of his work.
Van Gogh, fascinated by Vermeer's colors, writes to Émil Bernard (one of the great masters of color among the Post-impressionists): "It is true that in the couple of pictures he painted, you can find the entire color palette; but uniting lemon yellow, pale blue and light gray is as characteristic of him, as the harmonization of black, white, gray and pink in Velazquez.”
Recommended links:
Vermeer and the Camera Obscura.
Characteristic Elements of Baroque Painting.
Artistic Movements I: from Classical Antiquity to Rococo.
Dutch Golden Age (Dutch Baroque).
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