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[J.J. a daltonic painter]. 1994

P Lanthony

Laboratoire de la vision des couleurs, Centre Hospitalier d'Ophtalmologie des Quinze-Vingts, Paris.

Mr. J.J., painter, has been a professional artist for thirty years. On clinical examination of the color vision by pseudo-isochromatic plates, City University Colour Vision Test, standard and desaturated Panel-D 15, Farnsworth 100-hue test and Nagel's anomaloscop evidenced a typical hereditary deuteranopia. Neverless, the recognition and the denomination of coloured samples, presented singly or in simultaneous chromatic contrast, evidenced only a few errors. In an interview, the subject explained his difficulties with colours, mainly with green, and the procedures used to avoid mistakes in painting: knowledge of the names of colors written on tubes; precise order of arranging the tubes; use of a palette restricted to some basic hues, avoiding green. The subject artistic technique is based on drawing, on better perceived colours (i.e. the blues) and on value contrasts. He also enumerated his difficulties with colours in casual situations: clothes, traffic, food. Some reproductions of the works of the painter illustrate this study.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008297	Male		Males
D008875	Middle Aged	An adult aged 45 - 64 years.	Middle Age
D010151	Paintings	Works of art formed primarily by the direct application of pigments suspended in oil, water, egg yolk, molten wax, or other liquid, arranged in masses of color, onto a generally two-dimensional surface. (Getty ATT)	Painting
D003117	Color Vision Defects	Defects of color vision are mainly hereditary traits but can be secondary to acquired or developmental abnormalities in the CONES (RETINA). Severity of hereditary defects of color vision depends on the degree of mutation of the ROD OPSINS genes (on X CHROMOSOME and CHROMOSOME 3) that code the photopigments for red, green and blue.	Achromatopsia,Color Blindness,Monochromatopsia,Color Blindness, Acquired,Color Blindness, Blue,Color Blindness, Green,Color Blindness, Inherited,Color Blindness, Red,Color Blindness, Red-Green,Color Vision Deficiency,Deutan Defect,Protan Defect,Tritan Defect,Achromatopsias,Acquired Color Blindness,Blindness, Color,Blue Color Blindness,Color Blindness, Red Green,Color Vision Defect,Color Vision Deficiencies,Defect, Color Vision,Defect, Deutan,Defects, Color Vision,Deficiencies, Color Vision,Deficiency, Color Vision,Green Color Blindness,Inherited Color Blindness,Red Color Blindness,Red-Green Color Blindness,Vision Defect, Color,Vision Defects, Color,Vision Deficiencies, Color,Vision Deficiency, Color
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man