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This artwork reminds me of the fruit painting we have done.Even though it wasn’t moldy we still had to add highlights and shadows, similar to where the darker color is representing the mold.

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I wonder how long it took her to put each individual beads on the lemon. It’s a big lemon with little beads covering all over

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Many people see art as sculpture with everyday things, people, etc. this is a different way to show beauty in a fruit that most people would just paint it. It’s a clever way to put something most people would wear and something people would use in other ways.

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It’s a bejeweled rotten lemon. It looks expensive.

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I think that author is trying to get the point across that even the ugliest things can be beautiful. Because it’s a rotten lemon but it’s beautiful because of the beads it’s made of.

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I first thing I wondered is how much time it must have took to make this with all the jewelry pieces, how much it would cost because of all the expensive jewelry.

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I think k the lemon represents society and she is trying to portray how are society has begun to rot.
(Look at image below)

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I think the artist is trying to convey the message that money is always being thrown away. The artist does this by using expensive jewels when designing the moldy lemon.

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I see a rotten lemon made out of many beads. It’s yellow in some areas and the rotten areas is made out of darker colors beads

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The artist was trying to convey what a moldy lemon would look like if it was in a more beautiful way

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I see a moldy lemon made up of expensive beads and jewels

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I see a moldy looking lemon made out of clear looking beads, jewelry.

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All art has a meaning no matter how hidden it is.  There are many art pieces of clean perfect fruit and clean perfect landscapes that are centered around beauty, but this art piece seems to be showing more of an unexpected beauty and that things that are different can still be beautiful.

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Every artist has a hidden meaning in their work, the artist used something gross to convey a deeper meaning. Other artist use this tactic to show their meaning

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Lots of art is centered around beauty and breaking expectations. It’s a common theme in art to be critical of society and the way we do things. Art is almost a political commentary, in its own way. Several of the pieces we have looked at have had an underlying message of breaking from the mold (no pun intended) the world imposes on people.

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I wonder how much time this took the artist to make since it’s so large. I also want to know what she used to get the beads and gems to stay in place and what types of gems she used.

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This reminded me of all of the other artworks I have seen of still life fruits that are not moldy. In particular, it reminded me of the one from the Brandywine River Museum calles “Still Life with Fruit on a Tabletop”. The artist goes against the common theme that fruit should be clean and spotless in order to draw or paint it by purposefully including mold in her pieces.

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This art work makes me wonder how long did she take to finish this artwork, and what made her think of doing this?

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How expensive was this to make? It’s very large and very intricate. What was her true intention with this piece? What inspired her to make this?

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I Think the artist is trying to point out that society spends a lot of money on things that end up going bad.

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I think that the artist is trying to get across the idea that there is beauty in everything, even something as gross as mold or decaying fruit.

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The first thing I wondered when looking at this art was how long it must take to place all of those individual gemstones. It seems tedious to have to pin each one separately. The second thing I wondered was how people have received her artwork. Some people may think it is beautiful because of the gems, however some people may still be repulsed by the fact that it is mold.

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The artist is juxtaposing beauty and disgust. The contrast is the main point of the piece. It looks ugly, but when you come closer you see something beautiful. This is a message about our mindset as people and how we may judge someone on a whim without taking a closer look at who they really are.

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I think the artist is trying to get across the point that anything, including mold, can be beautiful. She uses gemstones to show this. People may see her artworks and think they are beautiful, but may look at ordinary moldy fruit and think it is gross.

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I see a HUGE moldy lemon. You can’t tell from the picture but it is LARGE. It’s made from beads and gemstones. It’s kinda pretty when you zoom in.

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I see various fruit sculptures made out of pieces of foam pierced with different gemstones to represent fruit and mold.

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I see a moldy lemon made from beads and gems

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I see a moldy lemon made of beads

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I see rotten fruit made out of beads and a large understructure.

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Create a box and write how you think the art is connected to other work that you have seen or that we have studied. Then connect that box to this one.

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Create a box and write what this art / artists makes you wonder.  Then connect your box to this one.

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Create a box and write what you think the artist was trying to get across to the viewer and why you think that. Then connect your box to this one.

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Create a box and write what you see in the images. Then link your box to this one.

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I have listed some websites that you should visit. Click on the links and read the articles.
https://www.designboom.com/art/kathleen-ryan-moldy-fruit-scultpures-10-17-2019/

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/t-magazine/kathleen-ryan-artist.html

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Artist Kathleen Ryan creates a conversation between the beautiful and the grotesque in her oversized sculptures of mold-covered fruit. The New York-based artist uses precious and semi-precious stones like malachite, opal, and smoky quartz to form the simulacrum of common green rot on each fruit. Working at a larger-than-life scale, Ryan creates a foam base, rudimentarily painted to map out the fresh and rotten areas on the surface. She then individually places each gemstone, with varied shapes, sizes, and colors that emulate the shift from desirable to disgusting. Lemons are a particular favorite, but Ryan also works with oranges and pears, with each work scaling 6 to 29 inches. "The sculptures are beautiful and pleasurable, but there's an ugliness and unease that comes with them," Ryan told The New York Times.

Ryan is represented by London-based gallery Josh Lilley, where she had a solo show in 2018, as well as François Ghebaly in Paris, where her fruit was the namesake for the recent group show Bad Peach. This year, Ryan exhibited her work in solo shows at The New Art Gallery in Walsall, U.K. and at MIT's List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as well as part of Desert X in Coachella, CA. Two of Ryan's lemons are also on view through October 20, 2019 with François Ghebaly at FIAC international art fair. The artist studied Studio Art and Anthropology at Pitzer College and received a Master's of Fine Arts from U.C.L.A. See more from Ryan's wide-ranging artistic practice on Instagram, and explore more of her work on the gallery websites of Josh Lilley and François Ghebaly.

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Moldy Fruit Sculptures Formed From Precious Gemstones Challenge Perceptions of Decoration and Decay

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Artist Kathleen Ryan creates a conversation between the beautiful and the grotesque in her oversized sculptures of mold-covered fruit. The New York-based artist uses precious and semi-precious stones like malachite, opal, and smoky quartz to form the simulacrum of common green rot on each fruit. Wor