Fine Art and Illustration

Quentin Blake is well known as an illustrator, but he also does intense studies of people within what could be considered the realm of ‘fine art’. These pieces are more abstract and despite being an examination of the human form serve little illustrative purpose. Perhaps if these pieces were collected together into a sequence of images or told a story they could be considered illustration. However as it stands, with just the image seen below, the work is more akin to fine art than illustration due to its singularity.