Claude Monet, Sunset at Pourville, 1882.
It was a difficult time for Monet.
Camille had died three years earlier.
Money was tight. He wasn't famous yet.
The Impressionists were divided.
But he kept experimenting.
One landscape. Many lights. Different moments.
He was learning to paint not the place, but the light.
For years, Monet feared eye surgery more than blindness.
At age 82, cataracts had clouded his vision so badly that he finally agreed to operations.
The surgery restored much of his sight—but left him seeing the world with a bluish tint. #artbots#monet