Word: stereoblindness
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...Wyath, Hopper, Stella, Chagall, Calder, Man Ray—that’s a cool one, isn’t it?—all of them were stereoblind,” Livingstone said, as she flipped through images of their lazy eyes in a PowerPoint presentation...
...Louvre a few years ago, Livingstone said, she serendipitously stumbled across another stereoblind talent, Harmenszoon van Rijn Rembrandt, whose famous self-portraits plainly depicts a lazy left...
Livingstone and her colleague Bevil Conway, who happens to be a stereoblind painter, found later that Rembrandt’s self-portrait etchings—which are mirror images of the original—portray an averted right eye. Armed with ample evidence, Livingstone and Conway concluded that Rembrandt was indeed stereoblind, a syndrome that may have helped him produce three-dimensional paintings...
Livingstone demonstrated the kind of hyper-acuity stereoblind people experience. Forced to perceive depth with one eye, “they are actually better at using depth cues...
...Artists have figured out empirically aspects of the neurophysiology of vision,” Livingstone said, such as the fact that the brain interprets color and luminosity separately. Stereoblind artists are particularly adept at creating realistic images, she said, since they are extremely sensitive to depth cues that most artists train to discover...