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oxtoby

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31 Jan 07

oxtoby

Joined: 06 Dec 06
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31 Jan 07

claude MONET the artist suffered from catterachts eventually having one of the very first operations for them

Turtlestack

Altered Carbon

www.danharlow.com

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31 Jan 07

Originally posted by oxtoby
claude MONET the artist suffered from catterachts eventually having one of the very first operations for them

That would explain his blurry paintings 🙂

GinoJ

Joined: 20 Jan 07
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31 Jan 07

Originally posted by Turtlestack
That would explain his blurry paintings 🙂

That's exactly what I was going to say.

oxtoby

Joined: 06 Dec 06
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31 Jan 07

Originally posted by Turtlestack
That would explain his blurry paintings 🙂

yeh was he tryin to paint properly couldnt see to do it and started of the jmpressionist movement by accident

GinoJ

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31 Jan 07

Originally posted by oxtoby
yeh was he tryin to paint properly couldnt see to do it and started of the jmpressionist movement by accident

Below is "the accident."

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Claude_Monet%2C_Impression%2C_soleil_levant%2C_1872.jpg

Turtlestack

Altered Carbon

www.danharlow.com

Joined: 12 Dec 06
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31 Jan 07

Originally posted by GinoJ
Below is "the accident."

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Claude_Monet%2C_Impression%2C_soleil_levant%2C_1872.jpg

Thank god the camera was invented to save us from the impressionists 🙂

GinoJ

Joined: 20 Jan 07
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31 Jan 07

Originally posted by Turtlestack
Thank god the camera was invented to save us from the impressionists 🙂

😲

sonhouse

Fast and Curious

slatington, pa, usa

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31 Jan 07

Originally posted by oxtoby
claude MONET the artist suffered from catterachts eventually having one of the very first operations for them

Better check your history. He might have had the first modern era operation but they were doing that kind of thing in ancient Rome.
Very delicate cataract operations with very advanced (for the time) instruments, tube within a tube kind of thing. The only thing they lacked was the idea of lenses.