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Still Life with Fishes (orig. Stilleben mit Fischen)

Karl Schmid1970/1979

USI Università della Svizzera italiana

USI Università della Svizzera italiana
Lugano, Switzerland

Karl Schmid argued that creativity should be intended as a game. You can play with shapes, colours, words... In this case, he had some fun 'playing' with the subject in a rather surreal way: by gluing three real bones onto the pencil drawing of two fishes.

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  • Title: Still Life with Fishes (orig. Stilleben mit Fischen)
  • Creator: Karl Schmid
  • Date Created: 1970/1979
  • Physical Dimensions: 40 x 60 cm
  • Type: Drawing
  • Rights: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) released by Fondazione Karl Schmid
  • Medium: pencil (graphite), fish bones
  • Art Genre: collage
  • Art Form: Drawing
  • Support: cartoncino
USI Università della Svizzera italiana

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