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OrangeYouGlad100 t1_j7at8iq wrote

Reply to comment by schnitzelfeffer in In Monet's impressionist paintings, that dreamy haze is air pollution, study says by WouldbeWanderer

That explanation doesn't really make sense, though. His cataracts would affect his vision of his paint and painting just as much as the landscape, so the painting would look similar to the landscape

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Nightvale-Librarian t1_j7bbeqr wrote

I can get my face an inch away from my palette and my canvas, but not the middle if a pond or the top of a tree (without mighty effort) - and that wouldn't help me paint a whole scene, anyway.

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crimeo t1_j7cxf6z wrote

So by your logic, if I'm completely blind, I'm also blind to my equipment, therefore it cancels out and I will paint landscapes with perfect accuracy? This redditor just cured all blindness with facts and logic.

Seeing your paints and gear less clearly would ADD to your problems and DOUBLE the errors and obscurity if anything, not undo your first layer of difficulties.

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OrangeYouGlad100 t1_j7d6dc3 wrote

No need to be snarky.

If cataracts just makes things look blurry then you're right.

If cataracts makes bright colors look dull, for example, then he would still choose paints that match the true colors of the scene. The bright colors in the scene would look dull to him, but his bright colored paints would look exactly as dull.

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crimeo t1_j7d745h wrote

Sorry, sorry. Anyway yes to a degree, but your dynamic range would be scuffed and you'd still make more mistakes. Like by analogy, if I'm a carpenter and I try to build a set of cabinets with a ruler that only has 1 centimeter markings and no millimeters anymore, they're going to be way shittier and not line up quite right ans not close fully, etc., even though I'm consistently using the same rulers throughout. The lower precision will make the answers float around further from the true mark.

It will always just add more and more errors.

edit: or not an analogy, just the extreme version of this actual issue would be full colorblindness, i.e. grayscale. You could still paint in color but you'd have to guess which color. Partial points along that continuum will be some way in between "the right color" and "guessing"

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