I recently had the pleasure of standing in front of this painting. I love Impressionism and
Woman with a Parasol has always been my favorite painting from Monet.
Isn't it something? It's everything about it.. the mood, movement, subject characters, light.. I could go on and on.
I was standing very close to it for a while until a guard looked at me with unfriendly eyes, LOL.. I wasn't going to touch it of course, just wanted to see up close the thickness of the paint and the tiny strokes and tried to imagine what Monet saw while working close to it and then standing far. I'm no fine art painter, but I imagine the only way to paint an impressionistic painting is to get close to it and step away far from it.
Anyway, I finally sat down to contemplate it and came to me how close fine art is to children's illustration at times. I know there are many debates as to what is what but I think the main difference is illustration in general has a commercial tint to it, there is usually a purpose for its use. But if we take that a side there is really no much difference.
Of course style and subject matter has a lot to do with this but take
Matt Phelan for example. He is one of my favorite author/illustrators and he is a master of making you feel with his art.. His strokes say tons and his illustrations are ethereal.
© copyright Matt Phelan
© copyright Matt Phelan
I'm not trying to say illustration and "art" are the same but to realize that sometimes they are standing
very close to each other. I just love that. :o)
What do you think?
Un cuadro de Claude Monet, robado hace 10 años y fue recientemente encontrado en la ciudad polaca de Poznán. "La playa de Pourville" fue sustraída el 19 de septiembre de 2000 de la sala en la que se exponía, donde no existían cámaras de vigilancia ni cristales especiales para proteger las telas. Fue detenido un hombre de 47 años sospechoso del robo del cuadro valorado en unos cinco millones de dólares. El artista francés Claude Monet pintó este cuadro en 1882, dentro de una serie de paisajes de la costa de Pourville (norte de Francia). En el Diario La República encontramos un artículo sobre el hecho.
Recuperan pintura de Claude Monet
robado hace 10 años
Una pintura de Claude Monet recortada de su marco hace 10 años y reemplazada con una copia pintada en cartulina en un museo polaco fue recuperada, dijo el miércoles la policía. Las autoridades también arrestaron a un sospechoso que tenía el cuadro "La playa de Pourville" del impresionista francés, quien confesó haberlo robado, dijeron funcionarios.
El vocero de la policía de Poznán Romuald Piecuch informó que agentes detuvieron al hombre de 41 años el martes en la ciudad sureña de Olkusz. Huellas digitales y otras pistas dejadas en el lugar del robo ayudaron a identificar al sospechoso, según Piecuch. El portavoz dijo que el cuadro fue trasladado al Museo Nacional en Poznán, donde expertos verificarían su autenticidad.
"Tenemos grandes esperanzas de que ésta sea nuestra pintura robada", dijo la vocera del museo Aleksandra Sobocinska.
La pintura en tonos pasteles de azul y verde, que muestra las olas del mar golpeando la playa, fue valorada en un millón dedólares al momento de su robo. Sobocinska dijo que no tenía un estimado de su valor actual, pero dijo que para el museo "era una obra maestra invalorable".
El fiscal de Poznán Krzysztof Grzeskowiak dijo que el sospechoso probablemente quería la obra para sí. De ser hallado culpable podría pasar hasta 10 años en la cárcel. (AP)
Link fuente:
Diario LaRepública Mié, 13/01/2010 Fotos:EFE
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We used to debate this in art school a lot - is illustration really 'art'? I agree - definitely a commercial element to illustration, but in my opinion is art nonetheless. Like fine art, doesn't illustration also have to be considered, designed, worked, and ultimately culled from the imagination of an artist? Great blog post! Now you've got me contemplating again! :o)
Yes, that's a very good point Alisa. Plus, illustration can be admired as is regardless of the purpose by which it was created.
Thanks for stopping by and sharing your point of view on this :o)
I think all illustration is art, but not all art is illustration. Illustration is done in order to solve an external problem, usually a narrative one. Art is created from some inner issue the artist is working with. Either way, that painting is gorgeous, and I would have received the hairy eyeblack too! Haha!
*eyeball. Hairy eyeball! Stupid autocorrect!
haha, I got ya Diandra, no worries! ;o)
I think about illustrators' sketchbooks filled with tons of images that are there for no particular reason. Would that be accepted as art more than a finished illustration from that same artist printed in a book?
I find there is general need in society to differentiate one from the other, but I often feel it's unnecessary.. if that makes any sense.