Semiotics Goldfish in a glass

A Goldfish is swimming in a glass bowl. In the background the sun is setting across the sea. The setting is the Greek island of Santorini. According to List, the fish in the bowl symbolizes the human spirit trapped within the material world. It cannot escape from that setting into whatever lies beyond. This very famous picture it works so well, that it makes it difficult to stop thinking about it, he used semiotics in a way that even if we don’t fill trapped in our own world, we start filling trapped in his grade image, sometimes we can even fill sad about the goldfish which is unable to live in its natural environment. And then we get to wonder if we live in our natural environment or if there is something else out there. This picture historically expresses the new romantic spirit abroad in European art in the mid 1930's. It was a spirit marked by melancholy and acutely conscious of human vulnerability and isolation.