Scientists claim to have proved what many in the art world have long suspected - that Claude Monet painted in his distinctive style because cataracts blurred his vision. Monet, a founder of French ...

LONDON, May 15 (UPI) -- British scientists say they may have discovered the secret behind the work of Impressionist painter Claude Monet: cataracts. Researchers said they used computer software to ...

View Slideshow For decades, art historians have wondered what made Claude Monet and Edgar Degas evolve from landmark impressionist painters to what some consider to be shadows of their former selves.

“Without fog, London would not be beautiful,” reflected Claude Monet, the brilliant French impressionist painter who revolutionised modern art through his paintings of gardens, flowers, and landscapes ...

Later in life, Edgar Degas suffered from poor vision probably associated with macular degeneration. His brushwork seemed less refined closer to his death in 1917. "Bodies were outlined irregularly, ...

STANFORD, Calif. - Michael Marmor, MD, wanted to know what it was like to see through the eyes of an artist. Literally. After writing two books on the topic of artists and eye disease, the Stanford ...

"I no longer saw colors with the same intensity," the great French Impressionist painter Claude Monet told a friend in 1914, two years after he learned he had cataracts in both eyes. "The reds seemed ...

Claude Monet always knew he wanted to paint. He went on to help create a new style of painting. CLAUDE Monet was born in Paris on Nov. 14, 1840. His father was a grocer and his mother was a singer.

Picture Vincent Van Gogh’s fiery swirls, enchanting olive groves and blazing stars leaping off the canvas, like the artist himself must have seen them. Watch Claud Monet create water that flows, ...