The simple art of Fruit

I make art out of fruit. I’d like to tell you why.

First, because it’s simple. It’s a joke, a pun. “Art” means something complicated. But I only use fruit, and fruit is not complicated. It’s just food.

Second, because it’s also hard. Art should be hard to make; easy things are not worth doing well. And making my art is hard: it takes time and skill and concentration. I have to draw exactly the right shapes in exactly the right places on the fruit, or else the picture won’t work. That’s true whether the pictures are of people or apples or rabbits or whatever I happen to be making that day.

In fact, making my art is harder than usual art because most kinds of art can be made by anyone who has enough skill and patience and perseverance, but mine isn’t like that. For me to do it right I need more than that; I need insight too. That’s why some parts of my websites are easy for me but hard for most other people, even if they are good at making other kinds of art and even if they work harder than I do (which they do). Drawing good pictures is difficult, but writing good explanations is also difficult.”

I took some photos of fruit. I decided to draw them with a sharpie. I tried to make the drawings simple, with few lines and so on. The drawings are part of my simple art project.

It’s not easy to draw. The drawing is easy, but the simple art of it is that you have to be able to see what you’re drawing and be able to put in on paper.

Many people can’t do it. Many people don’t even try because they think they can’t do it. They just chalk it up as a talent and move on with their day. But there are many ways to develop your talent. You don’t need to be a born artist but you at least need to try and practice everyday if you want simple art in your life.

Real simple art like this takes time and patience and hard work but in the end I think it’s worth all of that effort. The reason why I think it’s so important is because when you start getting better at drawing, it makes you feel good about yourself and other people start noticing your work and before you know it, people will ask you where did you learn how to draw this way? It could also give you more confidence in yourself.

Trying new things can be scary but once you get started there’s nothing else like the feeling of accomplishment when something comes out exactly how want it to.*(See Context)*

Being an artist isn’t something special or different from anyone else,

Art is a form of communication, but one of the most interesting things about art is that it doesn’t have to communicate anything. The thing communicated may be very simple, so simple that it is not even true. Art communicates something true by communicating something that isn’t true.

The art I’m thinking of here is found in Richard Diebenkorn’s paintings of fruit. Diebenkorn was a figurative painter who lived and worked in the 50s and 60s, and his work was about as abstract as you could get without being called abstract. But despite their abstraction, his paintings are about fruit–oranges, lemons, figs.

What makes his still lifes of fruit so interesting is that they don’t try to show us what an orange looks like. It would be easy to do that–just make a painting of an orange–but it wouldn’t communicate anything except the shape of an orange.

Art isn’t about communicating information; it’s about communicating experience. When we look at a painting, what we are experiencing is not the abstractness or concreteness or any other quality of the painting itself; it’s some idea or feeling or experience that the painting brings to mind. And we experience that idea or feeling in our own way

The fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

Now these things may seem simple to you but they are not simple to practice. You might say well I am going to be loving toward my spouse and toward my children I am going to be kind and gentle but it is not that easy. It is easy to be kind when things are going good it is easy to be kind when you are feeling good but how about when you are tired or when you have a lot on your mind or when your spouse has done something that really hurts your feelings?

How do you respond? When your child does something you really don’t like how do you respond? Is what you want to do just yell at them and put them in their place or do you try and take a step back and let God work it out in their lives.

If we say that we follow Christ then we should be doing these things because he did them for us. He loved us enough that he died for us so that we could have life with him forever. He was gentle and he was kind. If we say we follow Christ then shouldn’t we strive to follow him in his ways? Shouldn’t we