throughout the year, we were tasked to look longer, look closer, and look harder into the subject matter of an apple, and represent it through a plethora of artistic mediums. apples became the apples of our eyes. literally.
following our study of various artists and their respective art movements, each of us were tasked to represent the apple according to the art style/movement we were randomly allocated through drawing lots. we attempted to recreate and represent the apples according to the characteristics and intentions we learnt about the style.
the teachers wanted us to try out different mediums to draw an apple, so we attempted to use both ink and graphite pencils, focusing on capturing the tonal variations of an apple.
we were given 10 minutes to represent an apple in an abstract form, with access to any of the tools and materials in the art room. most of us chose to paint, but we all represented the apples differently and in our own unique way.
without explanation, the teachers asked us to represent an apple in the expressionist style. we tapped into our background knowledge of expressionist art (which many of us were lacking during the time), resulting in a wide range of different representations among us. needless to say, our apples were as confused as we were.
we each created our own, one of a kind set of 3 colours using only white, black, warm and cool yellow, red and blue acrylic paint. yes, there is chemistry involved in art...
using our sets of colours from the colour swatch board, we painted still life paintings of objects presented in front of us. since we had mixed our very own original colours, each of our paintings ended up with a very unique colour scheme.
for this task, we used cameras and scanners to manipulate the image of an apple in different and creative ways, challenging the limits of what an apple can be.