On 30 Jul 2006 07:13:31 -0700, wrote:



A famous Robert Hughes quote is:

"A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than
Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion."

Yet, all 'you' see is a fish?

Gordon Wickstrom in, "Notes from an Old Fly Book" says:

"As we gaze at the picture, we are spared nothing. The trout's sentient
eye, filled with fear, pain, desolation, holds the angler in its
supplication - or perhaps, accusation"

Still, you just see the fish? The "look" of the trout is
indistinguishable between the pictures.


What I saw was a fish that looked as if it had been dead too long by
the time the artist finished the work.
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Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless. Really.

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