In nineteen twenty-one, the Liege painter in watercolours, Francois D... (1874-1925) felt himself so misunderstood that he decided that, in future, he would find a relacement for his usual, scornful public, one more appreciative of his talent.
That's how he came to display exclusively the remainder of his work as background paintings in acquariums containing exotic fish, the only true connoisseurs, in his eyes, of the perceptible world of water and colour.
In order to correctly appreciate the different reactions of the fish to his work, Francois D... was led to develope such a detailed study that, at the present moment, while his painting still doesn't seem deserving of the slightest interest, his essay entitled An Interpretation of Sub-marine Emotional Currents continues nonetheless to hold the attention of numerous specialists.