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Janet Fish (born May 18, 1938) is a contemporary American realist artist. Through oil painting, lithography, and screenprinting, she explores the interaction of light with everyday objects in the still life genre. Many of her paintings include elements of transparency (plastic wrap, water), reflected light, [1] and multiple overlapping patterns ...
Juan Sánchez Cotán, Still Life with Game Fowl, Vegetables and Fruits (1602), Museo del Prado, Madrid. A still life (pl.: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or human-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, etc.).
Gyotaku. Gyotaku (魚拓, from gyo "fish" + taku "stone impression") is the traditional Japanese method of printing fish, a practice which dates back to the mid-1800s. This form of nature printing, where ink is applied to a fish which is then pressed onto paper, was used by fishermen to record their catches, but has also become an art form of ...
Oil on canvas. Dimensions. 140 cm × 98 cm (55 in × 39 in) Location. Pushkin Museum, Moscow. Goldfish is an oil-on-canvas still life painting by French visual artist Henri Matisse. Painted in 1912, Goldfish was part of a series that Matisse produced between the spring and early summer of 1912.
Binomial name. Oxylebius pictus. Gill, 1862. The painted greenling (Oxylebius pictus) is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Zaniolepididae, which includes this species and the combfishes. It is endemic to the northeast Pacific Ocean. It is the only species in the genus Oxylebius.
Types Name Symbolism Images Fish: Single fish Yu (鱼, lit. "fish") Wealth and abundance Carp jumping at the Dragon Gate: Success in the civil service examinations [7]: 63 Double fish Shuangyuwen (双鱼纹)/ Double fish [8] / twin fish: [9] two horizontal fishes, each facing an opposite direction Marital happiness; [8] fertility and abundance [9]
Painted fish are ornamental aquarium fish which have been artificially coloured to appeal to consumers. This artificial colouring, also known as juicing , is achieved by a number of methods, such as injecting the fish with a hypodermic syringe containing bright fluorescent colour dye , dipping the fish into a dye solution, or feeding the fish ...
Three species of Clupea (the type genus of the herring family Clupeidae) are recognised, and comprise about 90% of all herrings captured in fisheries. The most abundant of these species is the Atlantic herring, which comprises over half of all herring capture. Fish called herring are also found in the Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean, and Bay of Bengal.