Glass garden, March
1975
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
107.0 × 177.5 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1975
© Janet Fish/VAGA, New York. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
Gallery location
Level 3, NGV International
About this work
The invention of oil paint in the fifteenth century introduced a quality of translucency to pigments that was impossible with the earlier opaque egg-tempera medium. Since then, effects of transparency have enthralled painters. For Janet Fish, the clear plastic wrappers of supermarket items first ‘got me interested in reflections, and then that became more defined as light, and then as I painted the glass, I started to paint light. My subject was what happened within the object. The paintings at that time weren’t about the environment at all, but were about the objects themselves.’
Artwork Details
Inscription
inscribed in pencil l.r.: Janet Fish / 1975 / Co
Accession Number
EA14-1975
Department
International Painting
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
Subjects (general)
Still Lifes
Subjects (specific)
blue (colour) drinking glasses drinks liquid realism (artistic form of expression) reflections (perceived properties)