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Janet Fish (born May 18, 1938) is a contemporary American Realist artist. She paints still life paintings, some of light bouncing off reflective surfaces, such as plastic wrap containing solid objects and empty or partially filled glassware.〔 ==Background and education== Janet Isobel Fish〔 was born on in Boston, Massachusetts,〔 and was raised in Bermuda, where her family moved when she was ten years old.〔 She came from a very artistic family. Her father was professor of art history Peter Stuyvesant and her mother was sculptor and potter Florence Whistler Fish.〔 Her sister, Alida, is a photographer.〔 Her grandfather, whose studio was in Bermuda, was American Impressionist painter Clark Voorhees.〔 Another member of her family also named Clark Voorhees was her uncle,〔 a wood carver〔 whose wife was a painter.〔 Fish knew from a young age that she wanted to pursue the visual arts.〔 She said, "I came from a family of artists, and I always made art and knew I wanted to be an artist."〔 Fish was talented in ceramics, and had her mother's kiln available. She initially intended to be a sculptor.〔 As a teenager, Fish had a job helping out in the studio of sculptor Byllee Lang.〔 She attended Smith College, in Northampton, Massachusetts, concentrating on sculpture and printmaking.〔 She studied under George Cohn, Leonard Baskin, and Mervin Jules.〔 She spent one of her summers studying at the Art Students League of New York, including a painting class led by Stephen Greene.〔 Fish received a Bachelor of Arts from Smith in 1960.〔 This was followed by a summer residency at The Skowhegan School of Art in Skowhegan, Maine in 1961.〔 She enrolled at the Yale University School of Art and Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut, attending from 1960 to 1963.〔 There she changed her focus from sculpture to painting.〔 Her instructor for an introductory painting class was Alex Katz, who encouraged students to explore the shows in New York galleries. Fish got a sense of the direction of that art world.〔 During that period, art schools tended to favor the teaching of Abstract Expressionism,〔 and at first Fish followed along, painting in that style. She soon abandoned it, noting that "Abstract Expressionism didn't mean anything to me. It was a set of rules."〔 Her fellow Yale students included Chuck Close, Richard Serra, Brice Marden, Nancy Graves, Sylvia〔 and Robert Mangold, and Rackstraw Downes. She was awarded her Bachelor of Fine Arts,〔 and in 1963 became one of the first women to earn a Master of Fine Arts from Yale's School of Art and Architecture.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Janet Fish」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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