Typically, a painting isn’t even the same color as a real thing
Then you can start getting into the weeds about “colour as qualia” or “colour as RGB spectral activation” or “colour as exact spectral recreation”. But spectral activation in the eyes is also not consistent across a population—which we pathologise if their cones are “too close” as colourblindness, but in practice is slightly different for everyone anyway.
Then you can start getting into the weeds about “colour as qualia” or “colour as RGB spectral activation” or “colour as exact spectral recreation”. But spectral activation in the eyes is also not consistent across a population—which we pathologise if their cones are “too close” as colourblindness, but in practice is slightly different for everyone anyway.
And that’s not even getting into this mess...