I think Monet was near-sighted. What should I do?

Answer 1

Exhume his body and ask for a professional verification

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

Monet is dead. Use your own eyes. Find your own style and voice. And, stay away from impressionism.

Answer 6

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.

Answer 7

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.

Answer 8

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.

Answer 9

Wear presciption glasses that purposefully blur your vision when you look at things from afar. Or squint when you paint.

Answer 10

Read a book and find out that actually most Impressionist were.