Eye diseases gave great painters different vision of their work, Stanford ophthalmologist says

Stanford University Medical Center ^ | 4-10-07 | Tracie White

[Pharmboy]

For whatever reason, these guys could paint.

[Pharmboy]

Art and medicine ping...

[mtbopfuyn]

Proof that abstract is diseased.

[CholeraJoe]

Well, we’ve always known Van Gough had glaucoma due to the halos painted around lights in someof his later works.

[woofie]

Art Ping

If you want on or off the list contact Sam Cree,Republicanprofessor, or me

[iceskater]

Thanks for the ping.

My grandmother was a painter (not in the league of Degas or Monet by any stretch) and her style changed quite a bit after her cataract surgery.

[Sam Cree]

The famous portraitist, Everett Raymond Kinstler, who paints people like presidents and other glitterati, has said that his nearsightedness helps him with his paintings - it keeps him from seeing unnecessary details that would screw up the portraits if he added them.

But Woofie, do you like Monet? I have a friend, an elderly lady who paints, that covers her eyes when she sees a Monet - she doesn’t want to use her brains cells storing bad art she says, is afraid it will pull down her own painting ability. Kind of like associating with the wrong kind of people.

Actually, I like Monet well enough, and Degas better, but her attitude strikes me funny.

[Sam Cree]

Meant to ping you to #7.

[woofie]

Ive been to these gardens in France...if you shove a bout 30 tourists aside you can almost imagine what it was like in Monet's day.

Matisse is my favorite but Monet is a long long way from "bad art"

But then I have a brain impairment

[woofie]

If we are lucky this will devolve into yet another thread where we all argue about the meaning of art

[Dante3]

Interesting.

[maclogo]

For what it’s worth, I’m a graphic artist and have pretty much had trouble with color identification all my life. Been in the business for 35 years and have always been able to work around it by using Pantone color swatch books and knowing what “numbers” were what colors. For the past 15 yeas, I've worked on a Mac doing logos and printed matter. That has helped also. (And, that's where I got my name)... :-)=

[Sam Cree]

That’s a lovely painting.

Yeah, I hope this thread will devolve into a flame war on the meaning of art!

My current favorite is Velazquez, but I tend to have new ones fairly often.

[rbookward]

— If we are lucky this will devolve into yet another thread where we all argue about the meaning of art

Ooh! Ooh! Can I go first?!111

Art is short for artifact, something made by mankind.

I will now make some art. Here, pull my finger...

[GladesGuru]

What do you think of the hypothesis that Bosch’s The Garden Of The Earthly Delights was a result of drug use by Bosch?

The imagery has been widely compared to visions induced by LSD.

[Sam Cree]

BTW, if that Monet that you pasted has a fault, I’d say that it’s that the bridge looks cut and pasted...OTOH, I think I love that effect.

Did you seen any fish in the water when you were standing on the bridge?

[Sam Cree]

I'm old enough and dumb enough to have taken LSD back in the 60's, so I don't think so!

But who knows? Those were fairly superstitious times back in the 15th century and there were lots of deaths, so maybe people's minds worked differently. Is that a series hypothesis, that he tood drugs?

Nice to see you, btw.

[nicollo]

After seeing the exhibition, "Constable's Great Landscapes: The Six-Foot Paintings (at the Huntington through April 29), I came away convinced that Constable was red/green color blind:

John Constable, The Hay Wain, 1821. Oil on canvas, 51 ¼ x 73 inches. The National Gallery, London.

Now, since I'm red/green color blind, maybe I just couldn't make out those colors in the paintings... BUT, as I looked upon the huge canvasses I saw in them what I see when I'm outside. Sunsets, trees, and other objects that have subtle color distinctions blur for me, so what draws my attention is the play and brilliance of light, not necessarily its hues.

When others watch sunsets, I turn around and look at how the setting sunlight lands on things behind me: buildings, grass, trees, roadways... all catch the light differently. I felt like I was seeing that along with Constable in those magnificent paintings.

If you're anywhere near the Huntington (Pasadena), get there and fast to see this exhibit.

[Sam Cree]

To mention the painter Everett Raymond Kinstler again, who I think is not color blind, he says that it doesn’t pay for an artist to worry too much about hue or color, to just worry about value, then the colors will follow along.

[woofie]

Did you seen any fish in the water when you were standing on the bridge?

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No but I saw 2 tourists in the water and a can of French Dr Pepper