The eyes are the most valuable tool a great painter can have. They act as the filter of genius, as a channel of beauty. The average person has three cones (which capture the color red, green and blue) to correctly process the colors (in total one million colors). However, some people are fortunate to be born with a much greater ability to perceive a greater color range. Can you imagine what it means to capture a hundred times more color information than normal?
Is what happens to Old Concetta, an Australian artist who has become a scientific mystery. She, along with 1% of the world's population, has a strange mutation that makes her the possessor of this gift. This irregularity is called tetrachromatism and with it nothing more and nothing less than 100 million colors can be captured.
Despite the fact that this is an undeniable quality for any graphic artist (something like having a state-of-the-art processor or computer), the truth is that it is not decisive. Despite the fact that Antico has this gift accompanied by a great passion for his work and obtains greater precision when it comes to capturing his works with greater wealth and truth, it is not something exclusive. He claims that he is able to pass on his knowledge of color to students with common vision or even to people with color blindness. In the artist's words: “You can see dark green, but I see purple, turquoise, blue. It is like a mosaic of colors "
His work? Here I leave them for you!
Do you want to know if you also have this gift? Take the following test to find out. Look at this image, if you see more than three colors or can unravel the hidden message is that you also have an expanded perceptual range (or tetrachromatism):
The message is 999? I hardly see it but I see it