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the difference between fine art and illustration is nothing more than the economic class of the artist making it and that of their patrons.

Fine art is something you make in a big expensive studio and illustration is something you make at a desk (in the minds of the arbiters of art)

On the left is a horrible, despicable illustration (actually worse, a comic!) and on the right we have pure, beautiful, and valuable fine art (even though it's the same image).

And the original is better