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| Transvision of Pisces 6"x 4" $110.00 |
Thomas Eakins had a deep interest in outdoor life and many of his early paintings deal with rowing, sailing and bird hunting. As a Realist with strong scientific pre-occupations, he had always to prove that what he saw was true--hence the preliminary perspective and anatomical studies and the dependence on photographic evidence to reinforce visual experience. I tried to recreate the fine detail of a fish as if I were making a scientific photograph. But the contradiction between the focus of studied detail and the immediate impression of visual experience creates an aesthetic ambivalence.
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