The Truth Behind the Masterpiece
I’m short sighted and know what it’s like to wake up in the morning and fumble for my glasses. Yeah they called me four-eyes in school but I loved my glasses as it was my window to the world. Now we have glasses, lenses, surgeries…eye defects are getting cured. But long ago people dealt with their eye defects and as their vision shrunk they continued to do the things they did. Now research is linking poor vision with Impressionist painting.
The Impressionists give us a blurred picture of the world. There is a beautiful blurriness, an absence of defintion that makes the viewer get an ‘impression’ of the moment. Something like a poem. Read A New Look at Impressionists’ Failing Vision. Claude Monet had cataracts and Degas suffered from macular degeneration. That explains the vagueness of their painting. They painted what they SAW.
Interesting take on art.
Impressionism, Monet, Degas, cataract, macular degeneration, art

April 20th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
Wow, I never realised that! That makes me look at impressionist art in a new light for sure.
April 23rd, 2007 at 5:50 am
Interesting,isn’t it?