Monet vs. Manet

i like the scientific thoroughness they bring to the table but it seems like an uncontroversial thesis.

Plus Monet had cataracts

OK I see the authors address that issue in the paper

I went to the Courtauld the other day, for the first time in ages - I'd forgotten that The Bar at the Folies-Bergere was there. It was a shock to find myself face-to-face with it, and there's something uncanny about seeing the original of an image that well-known, it's hard to look at it properly, felt like staring at one of those images of a human face with four eyes, or something.

Yeah going to the Musee d’Orsay was one after the other “I know that one” followed by major discoveries (to me) like Monet’s painting of his dead wife—just after her death.

I just saw a Degas v. Manet contest exhibition - apparently they were very competitive with each other irl - which Degas narrowly won (imo). A pity Degas was an anti-Semitic dick though