Paint a horse while riding a horse
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Solo
Filmed
Creative
Physical
Subjective
Single brief
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Task brief
The brief for the task is as follows:
Paint the best painting of a horse whilst riding a horse.
Task notes
- Unlike other versions of the task, the contestants are not given an arm-mounted contraption that holds their canvas and paints, and must hold the small tray containing everything themselves.
- Vasco looks at all five paintings and declares which ones he likes best before he’s shown any of the footage. He declares that his favourite is the one that is ultimately revealed to have been painted by Inês, as it is so big that it does not even fit in the frame.
Task stats
Points
15
Disquals
0
Attempts
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- Toy spends much of his time on the horse reacting to its movements by crying out “hey!”. He eventually gets used to being on the horse, and moves on to critiquing his own art (“the more I add, the worse it gets”). Toy’s painting looks vaguely like some sort of animal, but thanks to a large smear of paint, the animal looks like it has two heads (Vasco later calls it a “werewolf/horse/whatever”). Toy comes fourth.
- While painting, Jessica says that she enjoys drawing. She also seems fairly comfortable on the horse, unlike the other contestants. Initially, Jessica’s painting is mocked for looking nothing like a horse, but she explains that she was actually painting from her own point of view on top of the horse – namely, she was painting the back of the head of the horse that she was riding. She admits that she didn’t actually see the other horse in the arena that was serving as a model for the contestants to paint. Thanks to her explanation, Jessica wins the task.
- At some point during his painting process, Gilmário asks if the horse has to be realistic, or if he can get away with painting an abstract horse. Eventually, he grows confident in his painting, stating that the horse he’s painting would be proud of his work, and that anyone who does not believe he has painted a horse “knows nothing about horses”. Gilmário’s painting is indeed more of an impressionistic version of a horse, but does utilise multiple colours; an attempt at portraying the grass and the sky was made. Gilmário comes second.
- António is visibly nervous about the task, but does get on the horse and paints. He declares that nobody can question an artist’s vision, which does not bode well for his final product. Indeed, in the studio, it is revealed that António’s picture is just a few brush strokes of brown in a shape vaguely resembling an animal; Toy declares that it “looks like an orgy”. António comes last.
- By the time she films this task, Inês is visibly pregnant, and declares that she can’t ride a horse. Historically, Taskmaster shows that air this task have a (usually embarrassing) workaround for contestants unwilling to ride the horse. Whatever solution Taskmaster PT had in mind is unknown, because Inês immediately comes up with a solution of her own. She calls her boyfriend and asks him to bring something to her – specifically, a toy riding unicorn that belongs to her daughter. She sets the unicorn in front of the horse, sits on it, and begins painting. To her credit, Inês gets into the spirit of the task, even putting on the riding helmet and bouncing on the unicorn to simulate the movement of an actual horse (which Vasco later describes as “self-trotting”). A dog that lives at the stable where the horses are eventually joins Inês and sits by her as she paints. From her point of view, Inês has a very clear view of the stallion’s genitals, and incorporates them into her painting. Inês comes third.
(Source credit: Jenny R)
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