On the table gaily set, behold, within the dish,
the fishes' queer countenance.
Fish are mute ... so one thought. Who knows?
Is there not a place where the language of the fish,
in their absence, is at last in common parlance?
Rainer Maria Rilke, The Sonnets to Orpheus, Part 2, XX
Herbert List, Goldfish, Santorin 1937
Gustav Klimt, Goldfish, 1901
Zhang Peng, Goldfish, 2006
Sandy Skoglund, Revenge of the Goldfish, 1980
Adolf Hoffmeister, In the Pisces Constellation, 1963
by Elizabeth Bishop (1948)
I caught a tremendous fish
and held him beside the boat
half out of water, with my hook
fast in a corner of his mouth.
He didn't fight.
He hadn't fought at all.
He hung a grunting weight,
battered and venerable
and homely. Here and there
his brown skin hung in strips
like ancient wallpaper,
and its pattern of darker brown
was like wallpaper:
shapes like full-blown roses
stained and lost through age.
and held him beside the boat
half out of water, with my hook
fast in a corner of his mouth.
He didn't fight.
He hadn't fought at all.
He hung a grunting weight,
battered and venerable
and homely. Here and there
his brown skin hung in strips
like ancient wallpaper,
and its pattern of darker brown
was like wallpaper:
shapes like full-blown roses
stained and lost through age.
Dali, One Second Before Awakening from a Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate, 1944
J.J. Grandville, A Dream of Crime & Punishment, bef. 1847
Gustave Doré, Gargantua, c. 1850
Richard Müller, Miracle of Training, 1911
Ruth Marten, The Herring, 2007
A. Paul Weber, Little Shark, c. 1950
James Ensor, Skeletons Fighting Over a Pickled Herring, 1891
Damian Loeb, Fish Sticks, 1999
Renee Magritte, Les merveilles de la nature (The Wonders of Nature), 1953
Man Ray, Pisces, 1938
Óscar Domínguez, Femmes aux botes de sardines, 1937
Toyen, Eclipse, 1968
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, The Lawyer (Ulrich Zasius), 1566
Luis Meléndez, Still Life with Bream, Oranges, Garlic, Condiments, and Kitchen Utensils, 1772
Francois Barraud, The Pikes, 1932
Rudolf Wacker, Still with Sprats, 1931
Max Beckmann, The Small Fish, 1933
Neo Rauch, Seewind, 2009
Alexis Rockman, Sea World, 2001
Dana Schutz, How we cured the plague, 2007
John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark, 1778
Winslow Homer, The Gulf Stream, 1899
Tom Sanford, The Somali Pirates vs. The USS Bainbridge, 2010
Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin, The “Volga” Epic, 1928
Oskar Kokoschka, Schlafende Frau (aus: Die träumenden Knaben), 1907
Edward Burne-Jones, A sea-nymph, 1881
Néstor de la Torre, Pleamar, "Poema del Atlántico", 1921
Lizzy Ansingh, On a Carps Back, c. 1915
Julius Klinger (1876-1942)
Martin Eder, Night, 2009
Martin Eder, Friendship, 2009
Ralph Crane via Fantomatic
Roberto Kusterle, fishing companions, 2004
Alexis Rockman, Fishing, 2000
Alexis Rockman, Gymnorhamphichthys bogardus, 2001
Vladimir Dubossarsky & Alexandre Vinogradov, Untitled, 2007
Shaun Tan via Animalarium
via Animalarium
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