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Pike by Georganna Lenssen on Zatista.com<\/p><\/div>\n

According to\u00a0Art News<\/a> there’s a new book out about the age old subject of fish in art, “Fish have historically proved slippery subjects for artists\u2014and not just for the obvious reasons. Until recently, fish couldn\u2019t be photographed in their native environments, and artists had to rely on cloudy memories of seeing them underwater.”<\/p>\n

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Koi Pond by Michael Begenyi on Zatista.com<\/p><\/div>\n

“Similarly, a still life with a caught creature had to be completed swiftly, before the specimen rotted. Naturalist Christine Jackson\u2019s Fish in Art, published by Reaktion Books, uses nearly 200 images of fish\u2014ranging from ancient Egyptian wall works to 21st-century photorealist paintings\u2014to illustrate their religious, social, political, and economic significance.”<\/p>\n

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Grouper Time by Sue Katz on Zatista.com<\/p><\/div>\n

The book is described by Art News<\/a> as, “the first survey of fish in two-dimensional art, is divided by habitat, with chapters relating to the sea, the beach, the river, and still waters, as well as to the market, the kitchen, and, lastly, the table. Jackson isolates the aquatic animals\u2019 form as one that has always fascinated artists. Strokes of black ink on silk in a Song Dynasty fan coalesce into a school of fish interweaving on a golden background; hundreds of years later, Paul Klee depicted them as flat, primitive shapes in neon colors.”<\/p>\n

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Swirling Around by Lynne Cunningham on Zatista.com<\/p><\/div>\n

The book describes an art lesson once given by Eduard Manet to a pupil about still-life painting. \u201cYou don\u2019t try to count the scales on the salmon,\u201d Manet instructed, \u201cyou see them as little silver pearls against gray and pink.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Pacific Blue Marlin by Anthony Dunphy<\/p><\/div>\n

Apparently, there aren\u2019t many contemporary interpretations of fish in the book. But lucky for you, we have plenty of contemporary interpretations of this classic subject here on Zatista.com. Since the earth is largely covered by the fish’s watery domain, we find the subject universally appealing. In many ways similar to art, water contains all the mysteriousness of the unknown.<\/p>\n

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