tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post8650295045788266734..comments2023-06-13T08:29:39.914+00:00Comments on MAKING A MARK: Watercolour paintings of flowers sell wellUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-2527458943123235062017-10-12T23:49:42.139+00:002017-10-12T23:49:42.139+00:00Thank you for making this interesting point Kather...Thank you for making this interesting point Katherine.<br /><br />It may be that many Botanical Artists see themselves as leaning towards illustration rather than painting, and so do not enter art competitions. <br /><br />I exhibited at the Sunday Times show in 1995, and there were not many botanical subjects exhibited then either. It may be that the precision style of many botanical artists is not so well favoured by the judges as the other more free style work which shows a great deal of watercolour panache.<br /><br />The fine art aspect of Botanical Art, perhaps needs more development or understanding from the Illustrators. The word 'Aesthetics' is often used as a means to describe the aspect of botanical art that is not strictly illustration. This comes across as a euphemism for decoration, or concern for beauty or what is pleasing to the eye. <br /><br />Aesthetics is a developing branch of philosophy and a serious issue for many artists. Fine art differs from illustration simply because it has a different content.<br /><br />The content of Botanical Fine Art may be emotional, intellectual, philosophical,or environmental - anything that expands the reality of what the plant material means to the artist or the statement they need to make as an artist. <br /><br />This issue that you have raised is maybe about identity and security and where botanical artists, as well as competition judges, feel botanical art belongs. I feel Botanical Art belongs in both the bigger picture of the art world as well as the smaller enclave.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com