Description: still life; dish/bottle
Label Text: "When people look at realist paintings, they focus on the objects, which I don't think are the subject at all. I think the object is one of the tools, like the paint and the brush. The realms subject is the light, movement and color and echoes of objects in one's mind. All those things are part of what I use to make the painting." Janet Fish
Smith alumna Janet Fish (class of 1960) is a lifelong student of natural light. Here, her vivid, slashing brushstrokes define her brilliantly lit, transparent objects: glassware, teapot, cellophane.
Fish started painting domestic objects in the late 1960s, at a time when the art world shunned realism and sentimentality. Fish was embraced by feminists for her serious attention to the details of women's lives.
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