The Colorblind Painter Case Summary

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The Case of the Colorblind Painter This text describes the story of Jonathan I., a man that after a car accident went colorblind. It depicts his struggles and curiosities about his anomaly condition. “Mr. I.”, how the doctor Oliver Sacks referred to Jonathan, was an artist before the accident, without his color vision, he saw himself in a very deep pit where everything was in grey tones, leading him to depression at the first months. When he started to visit the Doctor, test were made and concluded that he was indeed colorblind, without a specific reason to be found. Mr. I. went back to paintings after insistent trials, however he seems to be able to paint better only in black and white, his other attempts to paint in colors were in vain,

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