.................. ooh! This is interesting; I did my first thesis on the merits and ambiguities of Fine Art illustration versus Illustrative Fine Art?
The big reveal was so esoteric and rarefied that one had to have increased ones level of perception and philosophical sensitivity to the point that one was in danger of engaging in pure solipsism or at the simplest, total polemics..................
- It was heavy poop man!
I do remember using Andrew Wyeth as a means of swinging an argument which ever way I wanted it to hang at the time. But there again I also used Hopper, Simpson, Remington and Rockwell ................. I'd turned myself inside out and back again several times before I'd get a line of thought that just went in one direction and didn't keep splitting into parts of a whole, or constantly fly off at some ephemeral tangent.
Anyhoo - I got it down to "Art" is invariably a politico'/socio' statement viewed from outside of the cultural context within which it was created. Illustration was/is a means of conveying information or instruction within the context of which it was created, and craft was the tenet and technique within which the creation was executed................ It's been some while, and I'm paraphrasing from the back of mine own head - so I could of probably got that all wrong?
Now I just tend to agree that cake is good!
