Monday
Jul022012
American Contemporary Realist - Janet Fish
Monday, July 2, 2012 at 11:07AM 
Janet Fish, Dog Days, 1993, oil on canvas, 46 in x 80 in, Seavest Collection of Contemporary RealismSoHo based artist Janet Fish (born 1938) hails from a family of artists. Although regarded as a realist, Fish’s work also embodies influences from the highly energetic Abstract Expressionism of early postmodernism. Here’s an excerpt from an essay by Virgina A Bonito, that aptly describes Fish’s work.
“In a poem titled “Adam’s Curse,” William Butler Yeats wrote of the task of writing poetry:
A line will take us hours maybe;
Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought,
Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
If we apply that measure of success to the visual arts, we can find in the best of Janet Fish the perfection of the dictum....”