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In my view, there is no inherent difference between art and illustration except the way in which  payment to the artist is processed.

Size of the Audience:

Economic Impact of the Art:

Impact on Society: 

 Impact on Our Individual Lives:

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Gods' Man

Frankenstein

There are a dozen subtle choices in that "freely" painted sunset.

This is the second-- and I promise, the last-- excerpt from my recent talk at the Norman Rockwell Museum.  I submit the following thesis for dispute and contradiction.  Next week I will go back to showing really cool pictures. 

The distinction lies in the fact that art is the idea (brought to life) while an illustration is a depiction (or explanation) of an idea.

Fine Art is simply art for art's sake. Even if you are doing a commission for a client, it would still be fine art.  But illustration is illustrating a story or idea.

In modern illustration the intent is most often the selling of a product.  When something noble is put to ignoble ends, there is a deterioration of value.

Until the illustrator enjoys complete independence from outside pressure and direction, complete responsibility for his own work, and complete freedom to to do whatever he deems fit-- all necessaries in the making of art-- then illustration cannot be art but only a branch of advertising.

In my view, there is no inherent difference between art and illustration except the way in which  payment to the artist is processed.

Rembrandt turned to etchings as a way of selling multiple copies of a single image to Dutch merchants.

The earliest Pyle pictures were printed in magazines after talented wood engravers carved Pyle's images into wooden printing blocks. The engraver even signed the recreated image (see highlighted portion). 

Crude color was added to enhance the early images.

Later, audiences grew as the invention of photo engraving captured the subtler and more sensitive aspects of Pyle's originals .

Improved printing technology finally reproduced the full colors and technique of the original, leading to the golden age of illustration and a proliferation of illustrated books and magazines.

Last weekend I gave a talk at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge Massachusetts.  Here is an excerpt from what I shall call my NRM Manifesto (until their lawyer contacts me and warns me to remove their name): 

Size of the Audience:

The Saturday Evening Post,

Colliers

Economic Impact of the Art:

Impact on Society: 

The Gibson Girl set a popular standard for beauty

The Arrow Collar Man

John Held established the flapper as an institution

Peter Max's psychedelic style became emblematic of his era

 Impact on Our Individual Lives:

What ultimately matters in art is not the canvas, the hue of oil or tempera, the anatomical structure and all the other measurable items, but its contribution to our life, its suggestions to our sensations, feeling and imagination.

James Montgomery Flagg

Henry Raleigh

John Gannam detail: should we have sex before marriage?

Redbook, Cosmopolitan, McCall's, Ladies Home Journal and Good Housekeeping

"My precious babykins..."

from the Kelly Collection of American Illustration 

(24" x  20")

Al Williamson

Frank Godwin

  Cady                                           Johns

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