artist-monet: Water Lilies, 1926, Claude Monet Just saw a great exhibit on Monet’s late paintings th
artist-monet: Water Lilies, 1926, Claude Monet Just saw a great exhibit on Monet’s late paintings this week and while I’m not sure this was among them, there were several similar ones. One of the things they talked about briefly in the exhibit was that when he developed cataracts, his vision changed and the color palette of his work moved as well (toward yellow, typical of vision with cataracts).When I mentioned all this on FB, a friend of mine told a story about seeing some late Monet paintings in an earlier exhibit and realizing that his vision problems (astigmatism and nearsightedness) approximated the difficulties Monet had with perspective. So he went down the line looking at paintings with and without vision corrections. He could clearly tell some things Monet was trying to show that made no sense with glasses on but were clearer with glasses off.In one of the paintings he identified a man in a tree that he hadn’t been able to figure out with his glasses on. -- source link
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