Painters [*/ ) The Goldfish | Henri Matisse / Sanyu / Roy Lichtenstein / Andy Warhol / Alexander Calder

Henri Matisse, The Goldfish, 1910                                Roy Lichtenstein, Still Life with Goldfish, 1972
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Sanyu (Chang Yu), Goldfish, 1930 – 1940                            Carl Mydans, Checking out a goldfish, Germany, 1954

Andy Warhol, Goldfish

A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls…  saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a  distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?

Alexander Calder, Goldfish Bowl, 1929