AP Art of the Week
Spotlight on Artist Yulong Pan
The Elective’s digital art museum this week features an illustration made by Yulong Pan from East Catholic High School in Manchester, Connecticut.
Welcome to The Elective’s digital art museum, dedicated to the incredible work of AP Arts students. Each week we highlight a work or series created in one of the AP Arts concentrations—AP 2-D Art and Design, 3-D Art and Design, and AP Drawing (the AP Program also offers Art History and Music Theory)—as well as a statement from the artist (and, occasionally, their teacher).
From the first cave paintings to contemporary breakthroughs in virtually reality, art, in all its forms, has been a crucial way for people to process, make sense of, comment on, and grapple with the world around them. After more than a year of life in a pandemic, AP Art students have risen to the challenge of processing and making sense of the challenges—and opportunities—that have come from this perilous time. The work they submitted in their final portfolios is explicitly of the moment. It’s often challenging and provocative, but always insightful, inspiring, and expansive.
This week we feature an illustration made by Yulong Pan from East Catholic High School in Manchester, Connecticut.
Here’s Yulong’s statement on the work:
"I agree with David Hockney’s view that photography is at times limited when attempting to show multiple perspectives of a subject.
"For this artwork, I wanted to integrate perspectives from different frames and angles of one specific subject—a woman sewing a fishing net. I observed the scene along the seashore in my hometown, and I took multiple pictures of her.
"From each picture, I took one part and combined the paintings of all of them to form a larger work. Now the finished artwork is still 2D but displays multiple perspectives and angles that tell a more interesting and holistic story."
Here’s Yulong’s teacher Catherine Luker on Yulon’s work:
"Dan Pan is a dedicated and innovative art student that is committed to creating meaningful and stimulating artwork. His work is dynamic and designed with enthusiasm that inspires the viewer to think.
"It’s obvious that his appreciation of art and his experience using a wide range of media is what enables his artwork to span another dimension. He is a confident artist that is able to communicate his ideas visually while maintaining a strong relationship with the viewer. His passion for creating is contagious and it was my pleasure to share the past two years of his educational career."
And here are a few other works from Yulong’s portfolio:
This artwork shows what I see when I rush to the escalator to catch a train during busy hours. I created different layers of escalators using gesso, charcoal, and acrylic.
This artwork represents my street-photographing process by placing myself in the center of the scene. I first drew the figures on paper using pastel and stick them on the cutout cardboard.
Here I attempt to explore the technique of making paintings with blurred effects.
This painting shows a neglected scene of people dancing with their dynamic gestures. Here I attempted to explore the technique of making paintings with blurred effects.
Here I attempt to explore the technique of making paintings with blurred effects.
Student and teacher statements are lightly edited for length and clarity.
