As many of you know I am in AP Studio Art, but most of you don’t know that the AP Art test is one of the hardest AP tests out there. We spend most of the year working on our test. Our test consists of 3 sections: Breadth, Concentration, and Quality. Between these sections we have 24 works of art. 12 in Concentration, 12 in Breadth, and Quality is made up of 5 of our best pieces from both of the previous sections.
To submit the test we most have the 24 works uploaded to CollogeBoard.com and the 5 Quality pieces postmarked and sent by May 6 (which is also my Birthday). Lately I have been working on the second section; the Concentration. For our Concentration we must pick a subject to draw or paint about. I chose the circle of life. Here is my Concentration commentary to explain it in a little bit more depth.
CONCENTRATION COMMENTARY
The central idea of my concentration is the food chain, more importantly the food chain between reptiles, insects, amphibians, aquatic creatures, aerial animals, and of course humans.
To demonstrate the connection between reptiles, insects, amphibians, aquatic creatures, aerial animals, and humans I have created drawings using ballpoint pens. I render the predator in red representing evil and power in pieces one through nine. By portraying these beings in their natural habitat I have shown what they eat in order to survive. Starting with insects and arachnids (piece one, two, and three) I have shown how they prey on flesh and suck on blood. Later in my concentration I show the creatures that eat these insects, and immediately after that I show animals that devour the creatures that eat the insects, including a frog, fish, lizard, shark, bird, and snake. Lastly, I confront the situation where there is no definite prey or predator, like in Piece eleven in which a Great White Shark battles an Orca Whale. Both creatures are predators carrying the symbolic red on their forms.
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