Illustration

An illustrator is someone who does a painting for reproduction.

Is an illustrator an artist or not?

Can work intended for reproduction be considered fine art? (that is the critical question)

The moment I get an order to do an illustration is the work I create forever precluded from being art?

Are Picasso’s and Dali’s book illustrations art or not? The paintings Dali did for Disney or Vogue?

When the MOMA had an exhibition of works by Maxfield Parish was it an art exhibition?

When Durer or Warhol reproduced a print can it still be art or is this just printed matter?

What about 19th century illustrators like Dore,’ Grandville, Boz etc. Artists or not?

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To quote Andrew Wyeth'You first have to be a good artist to become a good illustrator,not the other way around'.Of course when he said this there were many great ones still around,like his father,Rockwell,etc.

I've done comm. and fine art for 30yrs. and it can be tough working within the guide lines of others ideas and being expected to still be very creative in the finished work.

Being thought of as an ill. or fine artist should both be respected.If for no other reason the work and study alone.

In an illustration, the subject matter is more important than the expression. In a painting the expression (the artist's ability to express the the motif IN TERMS of the medium) is what is most important. A painting can be an illustration. An illustration is not neccessarily a painting. This gets into definitions and discriminations between what is a painting and what is simply a picture, and also distinctions between art and craft.