Michaelina Wautier in her Self-portrait, she depicts herself with a palette reduced to just a view colours. In ancient times, mastering such a limited colour palette was considered a sign of artistic superiority.

Description of the 1649 painting at the Wautier exhibition in the Vienna Art Museum

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Like Michaelina Wautier, also Julia Minamata manages with a reduced palette (16 colours) to paint her adventure game Crimson Diamond with artistic superiority.

Lets look at a 1440p HD screenshot crimson

If we reduce the quality to 240p, we actually get more colours. crimson

I think we need a kind of cathode ray tube emulator that mimics the mixing of colours not on the palette of Mme Wautier but on our LCD-screens that display

The Crimson Diamond by Julia Minamata

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