Today’s interesting fact has to do with Monet.
Monet was a French painter and is considered by many to be one of the founders of the French impressionist movement.
He is famous for changing his style of painting, as in his red period and his blue period.
What a lot of people don't know is that when his red period started, he had developed cataracts, which shifted his vision into red.
When he started his blue period, he had just had the cataracts removed, along with most of the lenses in his eyes.
This allowed ultraviolet light to pass through into his eye, and it seems it made many things seem much bluer.
He even went back to previous paintings and repainted portions to make them bluer.
This trait of bluer vision has been confirmed with others who have had their lenses removed.
Challenged in September 2010 to come up with interesting facts every day by one of my work colleagues, I've since entertained him and those near his desk with bits of information dredged from my brain. Some of my audience went on holiday and still wanted the facts so I started posting here, every day I do one of them, usually Monday through Friday, and the occasional post on the weekend. I post these facts here almost every day and you will find two posts on some days to make any missing days.
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