Monday, March 28, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Designer opens museum exhibit, compares paintings, illustrations
By Kevin Dilmore
Kansan staff writer
Illustration is an art form more closely associated with books and magazines than the walls of a museum. But Spencer Museum of Art is changing that notion.
The museum officially opened its "Innovators of American Illustration" exhibit yesterday with a talk by Milton Glaser.
Glaser defined the distinction between illustration and more conventional painting to an audience of about 150, who gathered in the museum's auditorium despite what Glaser called a significant competing event, the NCAA Midwest Regional Championship basketball game.
"Illustrations are concerned with narrative function and storytelling, and usually diminish the metaphysical in the image." he said.
"But that is not to say that an illustration cannot become art in the
hands of an artist," Glaser said, citing Picasso and Matisse as well-known artists who had done illustrations. "When an artist does an illustration, it usually turns out to be a painting," he said.
As a graphic artist and designer, Glaser has done everything from designing restaurant lighting schemes to drawing portraits of music stars. His most recognizable design is one incorporating a heart into an "I Love N.Y." logo for the New York City travel and tourism board.
Glaser said he had been spending most of the last five or six years studying the use of light in illustration, and his perception of light had changed.
"Light not only has the capacity to reveal forms, it has the capacity to destroy them," he said. "When you are controlling light, you feel like God."
Tom Allen, professor of design and
honorary curator of the exhibit, said he was pleased to have Glaser open the illustration exhibit.
"He is a true celebrity in a field that used to have a lot of celebrities and now has only one," he said.
The "Innovators of American Illustration" exhibit features the work of 20 American, English and French artists and was developed from a book of the same name by Steve Heller. Allen said he was pleased with the results of the book's transformation into an exhibit.
"I had seen it in the works, when the pictures were lying flat," he said. "Now, that the prints are mounted and hanging, I'm really impressed."
Alen said that Spencer Museum of Art was setting a precedent with the
"Most American art museums don't give illustration and design much importance," he said. "European museums consider it more highly."
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