Edgar degas influences on health
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By the time Degas completed "Woman Drying Her Hair" in 1905, his eyesight had dropped to somewhere between 20/200 and 20/400. Marmor notes that after 1900, there was virtually no detailing of faces or clothing in Degas' artwork.
These images show changes in Degas' and Monet's painting styles over time as well as simulations of how their eye disease may have affected what they saw.
STANFORD, Calif.
Edgar degas influences on health
- 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 University School of Medicine ophthalmologist decided to go one step further and create images that would show how artists with eye disease actually saw their world and their canvases.
Combining computer simulation with his own medical knowledge, Marmor has recreated images of some of the masterpieces of the French impressionistic painters Claude Monet and Edgar