Answer:.. Yes, Gary, it is important, because words matter. Words shape the way we arrange the furniture inside our minds. I think you can love the great illustrators while you paint for galleries.
I try not to draw a line between fine art and illustration, because both terms are impossible to define, and the distinction is meaningless.
The term "fine arts", some people make art galleries. For some people, the term suggests a branch of art is supposed to be free of commercialism.
Having been involved in all kinds of artistic creation, I can attest that the art gallery can be liberating because you can paint anything you want, especially when starting out. But once the paintings are beginning to sell, things change, and career gallery can become the most commercial of all. Artists Gallery are always remember what is selling and what is not, and are driven by the market to repeat the success more than any other type of art.
There is nothing wrong with making art solely with the intention of selling it. We all have to earn a living. And it is possible for an artist to the gallery to be affected by the reflection on sales and prices, but it is not easy. Will you continue to do these experimental things you like to do when the latter show no red points?
The form of commercial art unless I know is the magazine illustration, where the individual work of art has no measurable influence on the ultimate commercial success of the larger work, namely the magazine. If art is "fine" in the sense of being non-commercial, is shown.
"Illustration" is a term that means different things to different people. It can mean:
"Illustration" is a term that means different things to different people. It can mean:
1) commissioned work that
2) work that tells a story
3) or work which is reproduced ...
These are very different criteria, and none of them should be a disparaging art pattern. There were great works of art which correspond to one, two, or even three of these measures. The work was commissioned by publishers, and before that by popes and kings, often formatting them very specifically for altarpieces and tombs. Artists have always been able to inspired work in such conditions.
The work that tells a story includes all the great works of art, not just painting but also movies and novels. How this might not be the highest calling? And the work that is reproduced just brings to a wider audience, such as the phonograph did for music. live musicians denigrate musicians who make records, so why art is printed otherwise?
So have some work to love talking to you. Whatever type of art you do, throw your heart. Now I guess the question is: Are we all artists, then? Too late to call us artists because the musicians and actors stole this term!
The work that tells a story includes all the great works of art, not just painting but also movies and novels. How this might not be the highest calling? And the work that is reproduced just brings to a wider audience, such as the phonograph did for music. live musicians denigrate musicians who make records, so why art is printed otherwise?
So have some work to love talking to you. Whatever type of art you do, throw your heart. Now I guess the question is: Are we all artists, then? Too late to call us artists because the musicians and actors stole this term!
