Drawing of fishes resists categories, but art-dependent humans prefer artistic achievements rather than stereotypes.
Return to the practice of older days when practice of visual arts was not yet divorced from modern theories of aesthetics.
W.J.T. Mitchell, Picture Theory, p.377
Alternative art must be fishy.
The gyotaku wanted ideas to bubble up from below to shape her pet aesthetic theory.
Are mermaids real fish ?
Each of them demonstrates engaging approaches to drawing liberated from contemporary seriousness but not from representation.
Real artists see their canvas as something alive: something living.