It's the art time of year again, and you know what that means: it's time to draw some bottles. Artists since the renaissance have delighted in searching everywhere in a ten mile radius for the most mundane object they can possibly find and drawing a picture of it. Baskets of fruit (mainly containing apples and grapes), for instance, have been popular choice since the 12th century. This was a time where, in Florence, there were 31.38 baskets of fruit for every inhabitant. Bread, flowers, cheese, books, pitchers and wine glasses were other popular subjects and gave way to today's theme: glass bottles. Drawings of glass bottles, while still not as interesting as drawings of Jesus hanging out with a posse of cherubs or something, are still cool enough to get on my summer assignment sheet. Thus, here we are, on a blog that has been neglected for four months, looking at a chalk pastel image of glass bottles. In a rebellious impulse against the overwhelmingly uninteresting history of glass bottle-based still lifes, I chose the most relatively outrageous looking bottles I could find, including a sippy cup. These bottles were not as interesting as, say, a painting of the siege of Constantinople, but were just interesting enough to not discourage me from abandoning the drawing half way through.
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