That white/gold or blue/black dress post is fucking me up because it’s making me question my ability to color and how others perceive the colors in my art.
Like what looks good to me might look completely wrong to other people? I remember doing that color test and…
I think part of what messes with people is that the dress appears to be backlit, and logically a backlit garment would be a shadowed out hue of whatever the colour would look like under neutral light, in yellow sunlight light, the shadowed white would look blue-ish and the gold would be brownish. But the dress is actually fairly washed out in the photo and appearing lighter instead of backlit, so it messes with what people expect. it’s like that checkerboard illusion where a white and black panel are actually the same colour if you directly sample them.
(I had a really hard time seeing the black and blue in the dress until I saw a picture someone found of the dress under normal light and my eyes like, adjusted to the lighting in the photo)
I was JUST POSTING asking where the dress is from and BAM.
Two years ago, we launched an experiment: an online image library where we made 2,000 high-resolution images of artworks that the museum deemed to be in the public domain available for download without any restrictions. This week, we’ve exceeded ourselves with the launch of our new collections website, giving away ten times the number of images we offered in the initial image library. Nearly 20,000 high-quality images of art from our collection are available to search, download, and use as you see fit.
