Blurred icons in Preview column

Low resolution images (for example icons) are blurred in Preview column since some recent osx update. It gets sharp (just like it should be) only when I resize a finder a little bit. But then when I move to another icon, it gets blurred again. Same issue on macs of my folks. Is there any chance to solve this issue?

Thanks for your quick answer. Now I see that I forgot to mention an important thing so my comment was confusing. Sorry about that. Let explain one more time...
I am a graphic designer and this icon is one of my work. When I go through a list with icons, they appear blurred on the right in Preview column section. Just like this:
But low resolution images in preview column always looked like this:
This thing has been changed in one of the last OS X updates. And it gets really annoying when I work with low resolution images/icons.
So my question is: Is this a bug? Folks around me have the same issue. How can we change it back to nice, sharp and real look?
Thanks

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