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PROJECT: DRAWING AN APPLE
so Barry Kite shows that art is more than in the
eye of the beholder. A former software company
named “Painter” packaged its software in paint
cans decorated with pastiche works based on
masterpieces in painting. Actually it was said the
cans happened to be a less expensive packaging
option than boxes.
An apple serves well explaining notions re-
lated to semiotics where an image of an apple
often serves as an example of an object, the apple
symbol is easy to draft and referred according to
connotations used in an Ogden & Richards (1923)
semiotic triangle.
See Table 2 for Your Visual Response.
An exercise involving drawing an apple and then
writing a short poem about apple may serve as an
example of translation from the visual to the verbal,
and beyond the verbal. A choice of an apple as a
theme may comes from the fact that an apple is
undeniably an iconic object - an image that rep-
resents some object that has a symbolic meaning
beyond the object itself. For example, a smiling
apple logo can be found on some dentists' busi-
ness cards. Apple and apple pie has been deemed
an American icon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Icon_(secular)). Steve Jobs knew it well how many
Table 2.
Your Visual Response: Making a Pastiche
Maybe you'd want to select a painting of your choice and make your own pastiche by adding some personal, social, or political reality to
the artwork.
