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Artist
69 posts |
#16789 2007-07-29 03:45 GMT |
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David
43 posts |
#16790 2007-07-29 03:49 GMT |
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Wear presciption glasses that purposefully blur your vision when you look at things from afar. Or squint when you paint.
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Jake
37 posts |
#16791 2007-07-29 03:55 GMT |
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Exhume his body and ask for a professional verification
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vevrca
80 posts |
#16792 2007-07-29 07:09 GMT |
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Percentage wise it could be viewed as an educated guess.
In Seinfeld it was stated that Monet must have been near-sighted because his paintings look like they're blurry. This is as close as we are going to get to the truth I'm afraid. As to what you should do? Keep breathing, Stay true to yourself, Enjoy. |
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Connie
32 posts |
#16793 2007-07-29 08:01 GMT |
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Why the hell should you be concerned about it?
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Kevin
30 posts |
#16794 2007-07-29 08:18 GMT |
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Monet at the end of his life was going blind. He couldn't see much near or far. He would be in the middle of a huge canvas painting rip it off the wall and have people burn it because it wasn't going the way he wanted. (At this point in his career he could afford to do this)
You don't need to be like Monet. Do your own thing and it will look much better than if you copied someone else's style |
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Wayne
82 posts |
#16795 2007-07-29 09:36 GMT |
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Monet was a nut. He was obsessed with capturing light to the point that he would put up dozens of canvases with time intervals of 15 minutes. There are lots of things to study and learn from him without worrying about his vision. Sometimes when I squint my eyes, I can see colors in the shadows and such that elude me when I look at them normally.
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Pink
83 posts |
#16796 2007-07-29 10:12 GMT |
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Read a book and find out that actually most Impressionist were.
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Heat2010
52 posts |
#16797 2007-07-29 13:39 GMT |
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First of all, your question is confusing. But as far as Monet goes,....if you think his alleged nearsightedness caused his style, that still doesn't explain the artwork of Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley, Morisot, and others. Impressionism was a style that resulted from many factors, such as the industrial revolution, new scientific discoveries about color and optics, and new artistic approaches to rendering the natural world. To blame it on one man's eye problems is ludicrous and terribly over-simplifies the situation.
Besides, think about this. If Monet was near-sighted and painted things exactly as HE saw them, his paintings wouldn't look "nearsighted" to a person with good vision. For instance, let's pretend that your eyes were screwed up and everytime you looked at a circle you actually saw it as a straight line. If you needed to draw a straight line, then you would have to draw a circle in order for it to look like a straight line to you. Thus, when someone came along who saw things correctly, they would look at your picture and see, not a straight line, but a circle. So, let's insert in the above scenario the words REALITY for circle and IMPRESSIONISM for straight line. For instance, let's pretend that your eyes were screwed up and everytime you looked at REALITY you actually saw it as IMPRESSIONISM. If you needed to draw IMPRESSIONISM, then you would have to draw REALITY in order for it to look like IMPRESSIONISM to you. Thus, when someone came along who saw things correctly, they would look at your picture and see, not IMPRESSIONSIM, but REALITY. |
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SplitDog
34 posts |
#16798 2007-07-29 18:41 GMT |
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Monet is dead. Use your own eyes. Find your own style and voice. And, stay away from impressionism.
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John30
41 posts |
#16799 2007-07-29 23:12 GMT |
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Veeseet hees tomb een France and speet on hees grave. Arteest, my flaky cwoissawnt! He was a blind fool and all those who kneel at his blurry imagery should be slapped with a live tuna.
Don't even get me started on that lothario, Pricasso, either. |
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McFox
38 posts |
#16800 2007-07-30 20:48 GMT |
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Wear some old glasses, you can get them in a antique store.
Or use a microfying glass or just make it up, no one know unless you tell all your art mistakes. |
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kellimaier
6 posts |
#17405 2007-08-05 04:31 GMT |
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surely this is a joke...
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