The answer to this puzzle is a person.
Transcript of the colors:
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WRYMCRGMBYKM
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WGKBMRCKMKMB
GRCRRWKYMYGB
GYMCGRWBYGCC
MYRKCKRGCGRC
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asked Nov 24, 2021 at 9:56
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6$\begingroup$ The person is Damien Hirst. Obvs. $\endgroup$– Rand al'ThorCommented Nov 24, 2021 at 10:38
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The answer is
Damien HirstLouis Braille
Why?
If we first take only the red colour channel we get this
This is braille for
First rotate 180 degrees
Rotating 180 degrees and filtering everything but green we get
which is braille for
Find the answer with a mirror
So, finally also mirroring the image and picking the blue colour, the image is
giving the final braille message
Born 1809 died 1852
And, indeed, Louis Braille was born 1809 and died 1852.
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4$\begingroup$ Nice solve! @OP: you'd write 420 as "#420", not "#4#2#0". And there's a word separator that looks like this: ⠀ $\endgroup$– BassCommented Nov 24, 2021 at 18:01
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