Hello list!
I enjoy collecting fashion illustrations from magazines and
postcards, and the some of them, if not alll, have similar styles and
trends. I wonder if fashion illustration is a 'good art'. Or is it just
commercialized work with fixed patterns and styles.
Think about illustration in general. Illustration is
basically a commercial art, right? Childrend's book, magazine covers...
Illustrators have to work with clients, writers and publishers under a lot of
pressure and a deadline. I think, at some point, they have to compromise.
Artists make people's tastes, but also the public decides what artists
can draw.
It's perfectly possible for some outstanding artists to
satiate all tastes, but generally, is illustration more
likely to become a 'kitsch'?
Elaine Youn
undergraduate