The apple industry and the artistic community have a very mutual symbiotic relationship. Apples, it seems, are the go-to object for practicing drawing. I bet there are more paintings and drawings and whatnot of apples than any other specific object (not including humans) in the world. I myself have drawn at least ten apples throughout my life, which is more times than I have drawn any other specific object. In this exercise, my art class probably used a total of 20 - 25 apples. Due to a multitude of people touching each apple, I imagine these apples where only drawing apples, and where not used as food. Now, if I was a multinational apple-selling corporate conglomerate, this would be an ideal situation. People are buying abnormally large quantities of apples just to look at. Perhaps I would even place spies within art classrooms to instill within the young impressionable minds of art students that apples, and only apples, are the one true way to practice drawing inanimate objects. Maybe I would try to downplay other, more interesting fruits such as granadillas, star fruits, cherimoyas, yew berries and kiwanos, by saying things like "they are only found deep in jungles in central America" and " they can be deadly to harvest due to their extremely poisonous bark, seeds, and leaves." Of course, this is all just conjecture, but it is good food for thought (pun intended). I digress; in this exercise, I was amused by the cries of helplessness from my classmates as they struggled with the new medium while I, myself, had no issues. To me, it was like using acrylic without the panic of needing to blend colors quickly before the paint dried on the canvas. My peers, however, seemed to think initially that this new unrecognized kind of paint was a shape shifting demon plotting their demise from behind it's paint-like facade. If that was the case, it seems that the forces of the underworld are with me. |
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