Artist: Janet Fish

Title: 8 Vinegar Bottles

Date: 1972

Material: Oil on canvas

Size: 134.62cm x 183.21cm

Location: Dallas Museum of Art, USA

• Janet Fish was born in 1983 and was a contemporary American artist who specialised in still life paintings
• Her works are flourishing and textural and packed with organic brushstrokes and lusty colours
• Her paintings are very simple containing simple everyday objects, but yet are very interesting, this can be seen in this quote, "Her paintings of things can be as... beautiful objects that convey no message, that cause the mind to stop thinking and to contemplate the marvel before one's eyes."
• She uses light as her subject and loves to produce harmonious compositions that vibrate with energy and light
• Her work has been characterised as photorealist but to describe her work in terms of art history, it is a 17th century Dutch still life artwork combined with Abstract Expressionist brushwork