**4. Conclusions**

This paper has tried to show how authors like Barthes, Didi-Huberman, Mondzain and Benjamin see images not as rudimentary systems of meaning and more than mere appearances. The paper has approached the dialectic between the visible and the invisible and how the reading of images must consider this dialectic.

In our contemporary world, images have become widely used as means of communication. This makes it urgent to understand the process of reading and interpreting images and the effects of this paradoxical experience; particularly when it comes to challenging artistic images. The relationship with artistic images makes possible to experience an active and passive reception of colours, thus awakening our faculty of imagination.
