Cut Peach, Blue Vase 1993

Janet Fish painted “Cut Peach, Blue Vase,” and what strikes me is the intense color play and how the light bounces off those glass surfaces. You can almost feel the energy of the scene. Imagine her, standing there, brush in hand, trying to capture that fleeting moment. Maybe she was thinking about Cezanne and all those still lifes, or maybe she was just lost in the sheer joy of color and form. There's a juicy cut peach, sitting all by itself on a plate, and next to it a vase. Look at how Fish uses these objects to create this dynamic composition, filling the space. There's a real conversation happening, not just with art history, but with the possibilities of paint itself. It makes you wonder, what would it be like to step into that painting and taste that peach?