How Monet’s Failing Eyesight Influenced his Work

LONDON—Science is showing for the first time how Monet's faltering eyesight may have directly influenced his work, The Times (London) reports. The artist discovered in 1912 that he had cataracts in both eyes, and his style became gradually bolder toward the end of his career. "I no longer saw colors with the same intensity,” he once told a friend. “The reds seemed muddy to me, the pinks insipid, and the intermediate colors and lower tones escaped me completely."