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> LED lightning often causes mixtures of pigments that look the same under daylight to look different under LED lightning.

I'm surprised that this extremely cool phenomenon is not embraced by artists and exploited as an essential part of their language. For example, they could use pigments with bizarre absorption spectra/fluorescent properties, so that the same painting looks completely different when put near a sunny window or under a led lamp.

Focusing only on color rendering under daylight seems a bit short-sighted, now that we master all sorts of synthetic lighting and fancy chemistry.




It’s a technique used heavily in psychedelic art and set design for festivals and events, particularly before projection mapping became the norm. When there’s spectral control of the lighting source this can be varied to bring out extremely contrasting detail in a surface or set of surfaces. As with most techniques its usage can range from pure gimmick to beautifully executed mastery.


> to beautifully executed mastery

Imagine a Mona Lisa that only smiles in a cloudy evening!


Imagine a landscape painting whose sky always reflects the current weather and time of day!


Easy, just use a mirror!

But what about the opposite? A sunny landscape when it's cloudy outside, and a cloudy landscape when it's sunny?


There are some artists who do and IMO they’re rather gimmicky. Not sure how widely shared that view is.




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