Throughout time, the apple has been adopted as an artistic device to portray human emotion. This story explores how the humble fruit has been used in art to express different human feelings and characteristics. It is our final apple story based upon The Apple World map.
Apples & People has already shared many important images from around the world showing people holding apples – people in America, Japan, Scandinavia, France, China, Australia, New Zealand and India… From the late Jon Cripps holding Pink Lady to the legendary Gangines of India, from Walt Disney animated characters to the late Queen Elizabeth II. Art from the brush of Crispin van den Broeck and Lucas Cranach in the sixteenth century to works by Gertler in the twentieth century and Amemiya in the twenty-first. People holding apples everywhere.
This final story is our chance to share other delightful images of people holding apples that help portray the abiding relationship between apples and people. We are extremely grateful to the many art institutions who have made this possible. Also thanks to Lottie Sweeney, one of the many artists commissioned for Apples & People. Lottie is pictured presenting her 44th apple model to add to the Museum of Cider’s new collection of the most important apples to have emerged since the mid nineteenth century. Her latest model is of a large Fuji apple from China, the world’s most grown commercial apple.
Our Final Apple Story No. 46 published on the 19th June 2023
