 The Artists'
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| The Artists'
Eyes |
| Can you identify these great painters who suffered from
eye problems ?
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1. Renowned for his paintings of ballerinas,
this impressionist had severe myopia. In his later works, he preferred pastels to oil as it provided an easier medium for his deteriorating eyesight. He finally took up sculptures as he trusted his sense of touch more than his vision.
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| 2. A diabetic as well as myopic, this painter
regarded glasses as vulgar and refused to wear them. Despite his talents, he often wondered if his noble way of painting might have resulted from his eye problems.
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3. Famous for his waterlily paintings,
this
impressionist resorted to labelling his tubes of paint when his vision deteriorated due to cataract. After a cataract operation, he was shocked by the blueness of his world and appalled by the strange colour of his recent works which he proceeded to retouch. |
| 4. Well-known for selft-mutilation and
the high
price paid for his works (only after his death), he developed yellow vision and often saw halos around light. The visual problems might have been caused by digitalis poisioning which was used for epilepsy.
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5. A great landscape painter who derived
some of his finest inspiration from Venice. He developed cataract and his later work was described by Mark Twain as "like a ginger cat having a fit in bowl of tomatoes".
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