What is an inkjet (Giclee) print and how is it created? It was originally developed as a method for proofing prints. Images of an original work of art can be captured digitally in a sophisticated computer with unrivaled clarity and capability for color correction. Once the fine artist and skilled craftspeople agree that the image is virtually identical to the original, the work is printed on a remarkable new breed of printer, which can print on almost any surface. It sprays four million droplets of specially-created, differently-colored inks (which are no bigger than a single red blood cell each) onto a surface each second at a velocity of 90 miles an hour. These drops, or dabs, if you will, can create a palette of more than ten million colors. Why buy inkjet(Giclee) prints as opposed to other forms of printmaking? Most All Giclee prints are quality works of art, but inkjet prints have gained the admiration of artists, photographers, graphic designers, and art lovers around the world. They have better detail and color matching than lithographs and better gradation than even serigraphs. How should one care for an inkjet print? Almost exactly like a delicate watercolor original. An inkjet is so similar to the original that it might smudge if you smear or touch it too roughly. The benefit to the collector, however, is that you frame and display it with the same pride as an original. In fact, Paris' prestigious Louvre museum uses inkjet prints to display paintings which cannot be allowed out of the museum's cellars. No painting should be exhibited in direct sunlight, of course, but, even so, we would gladly support the beauty, vibrancy, and durability of the inkjet in comparison to any other kind of fine art print. Art of the Print A "user-friendly" guide for all your fine art possiblilites With all the new print offerings, it can sometimes be difficult to understand how one kind of print differs from another, and to feel confident about selecting one. As the pubisher, we have compiled the following guide to help you better understand the printing techniques that we choose to best replicate original paintings. Offset Lithographic Prints Look for classic quality and consistent beauty in all our offset lithographic prints. This process affordably allows more people to own and enjoy a single work of art on paper than the original painting would. Offset lithography is a photographic printing technique that uses inks, carried by rubber rollers called printing blankets, to transfer images from metal plates to paper. Not all prints are alike, however, even at the same price. Our inks and archival paper are specially made to our exacting specifications. While the industry standard for offset lithographic prints is often only four colors, we routinely create fine art prints in as many as ten different colors, resulting in unmatched clarity and color fidelity to the original. Whichever work of art you choose, each offers its own unique qualities, and all offer you the pride and pleasure of owning a superlative work of art that might not otherwise be available. Canvas Prints These are created by offset lithographic printing directly on canvas, as opposed to on paper. Inks are specially adjusted for this technique, and the canvas that is usually used has many of the same characteristics as the canvas that artists paint on. Textured Canvas Prints This unique and valuable technique replicates the look and feel of an original painting, including canvas texture and artist's brush strokes. The image is first printed by offset lithography with oil-based inks on a thin piece of oil-based material. A mold of the original painting can be used as a guide to creat a feeling of brush strokes on the canvas, or the artist can re-create the brush strokes him or herself. The mold is used with heat and pressure to bond the printed image to artist-quality canvas. The resulting fine art print captures the texture as well as the image of the original and is framed without glass. Published on a very selective basis and usually in much more exclusive editions, textured canvas prints have many of the popular attributes of an original. Fine Art Serigraphs Also commonly known as silk-screening, serigraphy is a time-honored technique, based on stenciling, for creating prints by hand. Ink or paint is carefully brushed through a fine fabric screen, portions of which have been masked for impermeability. For each color, a different portion of the screen must be masked, and each color must be allowed to dry before the next is applied. Fine art serigraphs are created from an original painting, and the artist can see and adjust the evolution of the colors through many proofing stages. This exacting process can use more than 100 hand-applied colors. The depth of color is almost luminous. Definitions Acid Free: A descriptive term for specially made materials -- used for the print itself or in the framing process -- that are free of acids, which can cause discoloration and deterioration of a print. Certificate of Authenticity: A statement of the authenticity of a limited edition. Documentation includes edition size and artist's proofs, title of work, artist's name, and date of release. Also known as a "warranty card," this document guarantees that the edition is indeed limited and that the image will not be published again as a fine art print. Conservation Framing: The method of framing a print in such a way that the print remains undamaged, in its original condition. This is accomplished through the use of special high-quality components, including acid-free materials, to protect the work of art from deterioration, fading and wear. Countersignature: On a limited editon, the signature of someone in addition to the artist, often adding historical value to the work of art. Edition, Limited: A fixed number of identical prints of an images, signed by the artist, sequentially numbered, and showing both the print's number and the total edition size. Each print is referred to as a "limited edition print." Edition, Open: Identical prints of an images, which are signed by the artist and published in unlimited number Proof, Artist's (AP): Additional prints not included in the regular limited edition, produced for the printer's consideration and approval. Proof, Printer's: A small number of additional prints not included in the regular limited edition, produced for the printer's consideration and approval. Proof of Copyright Registration: One or two prints, produced in addition to the limited edition, which are sent by the publisher to the government agency responsible for copyright protection in the coutry in which the print is published. Remarque: An original or printed drawing or marking made by the artist, usually in the margin of a limited edition print or on a small separate sheet of paper that accompanies the limited edition print. A remarque, especially if original, can add substantially to the value of a limited edition print. Secondary Market: An unofficial network of dealers and individuals where the buying and selling of fine art prints takes place. ENGRAVING - An intaglio printing technique using a V-shaped tool called a burin to draw a design on a hard surface, such as copper or wood. The engraved plate is inked directly, without using acid. OTHER TERMS ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM - A movement that evolved in New York in the late 1940s and 1950s, it stressed the physical act of painting as a means of expression and was sometimes called action painting. The style encompassed the cubist emphasis on the picture plane with the surrealist interest in releasing unconscious imagery. At mid-century two stylistic trends were present: action painting and color field painting. ALLEGORY - Art in which the subject represents an underlying idea or an abstract quality taken from a religious, historical, or literary source. ARMORY SHOW - The first major exhibition of modern art in America, held at New York City's 69th Infantry Regiment Armory from 17 February to 15 March 1913. The controversial exhibition introduced American artists and the public to European avant-garde art as well as to the work of some American artists working in modernist, cubist-inspired styles. ASHCAN SCHOOL - A group of early twentieth-century realist painters, originally called "The Eight," the who portrayed scenes of city life. Many of them began as newspaper illustrators and their art was also a chronicle of everyday urban activity. These subjects were often derided, earning the artists the name "Ashcan school." ASSEMBLAGE - A sculptural work of art usually comprised of found objects, these works often re-frame everyday materials as fine art. See collage. BIOMORPHISM - A style that employs abstract shapes based on forms found in nature, especially those from the animal and plant worlds. COLOR FIELD PAINTING - A painting style of extreme simplicity that flourished in the 1960s. Such paintings usually featured colors soaked into the canvas, emphasizing their relationship on the surface of the image rather than in depth. Color is used as the primary element in both creating composition and evoking mood. COLLAGE - The process of pasting together various materials such as printed matter, wallpaper, photographs, and cloth, often accented with drawn or painted elements. This term also applies to the completed work, which usually adheres to the convention of the picture plane, in contrast to the more sculptural assemblage. CONSTRUCTIVISM - An abstract art movement that emerged in Russia around 1917. Constructivists viewed art as a scientific activity, an exploration of line, color, surface, and construction, and sought to apply their ideas to political and social issues. CUBISM - A ground-breaking style that emerged in France around 1909, in the work of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Cubist artists shattered naturalistic forms and space, attempting to represent on a flat surface all aspects of what existed in three dimensions. Analytic cubism presented different views of an object simultaneously and stressed geometric forms and neutral tones. Synthetic cubism, a later stage, reintroduced color and elements of collage. THE EIGHT - A group of realist artists who challenged prevailing conventions in order to depict city life. The group included Arthur B. Davies, Maurice Prendergast, Everett Shinn, Robert Henri, George Luks, William J. Glackens, John Sloan, and Ernest Lawson. Exhibiting together in 1908, the eight painters were later nicknamed the Ashcan school because of their "gritty" subjects. ENGRAVING - An intaglio printing technique using a V-shaped tool called a burin to draw a design on a hard surface, such as copper or wood. The engraved plate is inked directly, without using acid. ETCHING - An intaglio printing process using acid to create an image on a metal plate. The design is scratched through an acid-resistant coating with a needle, exposing the metal below. Dipping the plate into an acid bath bites away the lines of the design. The plate can then be inked and pressed against paper, producing a print which is also called an etching. EXPRESSIONISM - In a broad sense, any art that emphasizes the artist's feelings or state of mind more than his objective observations. Expressionist works often show exaggerations such as distorted shapes and unnatural colors. FAUVES - A French term meaning "wild beasts." It described painters whose work was characterized by vibrant, distorted colors and bold drawing. The group, which exhibited together in Paris in 1905, included Henri Matisse, André Derain, and Georges Rouault. FEDERAL ARTS PROJECT - Between 1933 and 1943 the government sponsored programs organized to help support artists during the Depression. The FAP was part of the largest program of this kind, the Works Progress Administration, which hired artists to decorate public buildings and parks. Musicians, writers, and dramatists also were employed for special federal projects. FOLK ART - See naive art. FORMALISM - Any art or art criticism that emphasizes compositional elements (color, line, shape, texture) over content (subject, meaning). FOUND OBJECT - Any item found by the artist and presented as a work of art, with little or no alteration. FUTURISM - Founded in Italy in 1909, the futurist movement involved all of the arts and celebrated modern technology and the world of the future. Futurist works emphasized motion and velocity, transforming the fragmented forms of cubism into sharp, angular facets that embodied speeding movement through space and time. GENRE - The term refers to art that shows scenes from daily life. HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL - A group of American painters working between about 1820 and 1875 who celebrated the landscape, particularly the region of the Catskill Mountains and Hudson River Valley. Some of their works portrayed the American wilderness as a Utopia or Eden; other works stressed the dramatic forces in nature. ICON - A portrait or image usually in a religious context. Specifically, a panel painting of a sacred figure who is the object of worship. The term more broadly applies to any building, painting, or sculpture regarded as a symbol or an object of reverence. ICONOGRAPHY - The study of the symbolic meaning of objects, people, and events represented in works of art. IMPRESSIONISM - A movement among late nineteenth-century French painters who sought to present a true representation of light and color. Working primarily outdoors, such artists applied small touches of paint to catch fleeting impressions of the scenes before them. Many American artists adopted the style. INTAGLIO - A general term covering engraving and related printing techniques, in which the ink that yields the image is held by recessed lines incised into a matrix (plate). Such a hollow-cut design is the opposite of relief. LIMNER - A name for an artist from the root word illuminate, used in Britain and in eighteenth-century America. Colonial artists or limners, often working in a naive style, produced the first American portraits, still lifes, and landscapes. LUMINISM - A modern term for an interest in the effects of light and atmospheric perspective found in the work of Hudson River school and later nineteenth-century landscapists. Luminist paintings featured clearly organized compositions and meticulous presentation, often depicting harbors or sea views, with shimmering reflections. MEDIUM - The physical substance used as a means of expression by an artist. More specifically, the term refers to the substance in paint that binds the pigment to the surface. MINIMALISM - Spare in appearance and restrained in mood, minimalist art emerged in the 1960s. The term can refer to the extreme simplicity of a work of art or to the suppression of detail and gesture in favor of a rational, at times machine-made quality. MODERNISM - The dominant theory guiding the creation of art from the 1860s through the 1960s. In the mid-nineteenth century, a growing middle class, the increasing capitalism of the art market, and the gradual secularization and industrialization of society all contributed to a radical shift in the role of art in society. This new sentiment manifested itself in a variety of styles, but common throughout was the idea that art should be valued for its own sake. Artists abandoned traditional subjects of historical and religious scenes, experimenting instead with formal elements of color, space, and light. MOTIF - The subject of a painting, or an element of design within a work of art. NAIVE ART - The work of artists with little or no formal or academic training, often called folk art. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN - An institution founded in New York in 1825 that offered artists instruction and exhibition opportunities. Breaking away from the American Academy of the Fine Arts, it admitted only artists to its membership. NATURALISM - An objective, even scientific interest in detailed depictions of the natural world; sometimes this term is used interchangeably with realism. NEOCLASSICISM - Beginning in the late eighteenth century, an international movement in art and architecture that revived interest in the orderly, linear, and symmetrical styles of ancient Greece and Rome. NEW YORK SCHOOL - Another name for American avant-garde artists in New York in the late 1940s. The group included the abstract expressionists as well as artists working in other abstract styles. PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS - Founded in Philadelphia in 1805 to promote the fine arts, this society provided copies of works of art as models for local artists. Within a few years life classes were offered, and later an exhibition program for contemporaneous American art was established. From these exhibitions, the Academy acquired many outstanding works for its collection. PERSPECTIVE - The means for representing deep space or three-dimensional forms on a flat surface. Atmospheric or aerial perspective achieves the illusion of depth through diminishing contrasts and increasingly blurred forms as distances increase. Linear or mathematical perspective relies upon real or implied diagonals that converge on a vanishing point or points, frequently at a horizon line. POP ART - Painting, sculpture, and graphics that use the imagery of popular or mass culture such as newspapers, comics, advertising, and consumer goods. A witty and ironic art, it emerged in New York in the 1960s after beginning in London during the 1950s. POST-MODERNISM - beginning in 1960s, this movement incorporates a sense of ambivalence about scientific achievements and technological advances, and recognizes the benefits as well as drawbacks of life in late twentieth-century society. This sentiment is manifested artistically in a wide variety of ways, but began by reacting against the signature modernist trends of abstraction and pure formalism. Post-modern artists often incorporate classical imagery in their work as well as contemporary references, spanning the traditional gap between high art and popular culture. This combination of traditional artistic techniques and contemporary, critical sentiment results in an art that can be ironic, ambiguous, and often humorous. PRECISIONISM - An approach through which American artists, beginning around 1915, focused on industrial and urban subjects in a clearly defined, starkly geometric style. PICTURE PLANE - The imaginary plane represented by the physical surface of a painting or drawing, comparable to the glass through which one sees a view beyond a window. REALISM - Art which aims at the reproduction of reality. In popular usage, the opposite of abstraction. Also, a movement among nineteenth-century French artists who rejected the emotionalism and idealism of romantic art. REGIONALISM - An art movement of the 1930s that focused on portraying aspects characteristic of American life. Midwestern painters are identified most closely with the trend, depicting scenes of rural America, often with a nostalgic tone, but some regionalists also focused on urban life. RELIEF - A sculptural design created so that all or part of it projects from a flat surface. The tern can refer to the illusion of three dimensions in a painting. In printing, an overall term for images produced from ink that lies on top of raised surfaces; the opposite of intaglio. ROMANTICISM - A nineteenth-century international movement in both art and literature that rejected the order and restrictions of neoclassicism in favor of individual freedom of expression and greater emphasis on feeling. Romantic painting tends to be rich in color, mood, and atmosphere. SOCIAL REALISM - American art of the 1930s, realistic in style, and intended to address subjects of social concern. Regarded by some as an aspect of American scene painting, social realist artists often portrayed people who were socially and economically disadvantaged to call attention to social ills and needs for reform. STILL LIFE - A painting of inanimate objects such as fruits, flowers, books, or tools. SURREALISM - A movement founded in France in 1924 by the poet André Breton. It sought to liberate unconscious feelings, and by focusing on dream images, to abandon conscious control. Much European surrealist art shows fantastic and strange scenes depicted in a highly realistic manner. SYMBOLISM - A European literary and artistic movement prevalent from about 1885 to 1910. Symbolism favored the subjective over the realistic, presenting ideas in the form of internal or intellectual symbols. THE TEN - A group of ten Boston and New York artists, predominantly impressionists, who broke from the Society of American Artists in 1897 because of its conservative policies. The group was led by Childe Hassam and included Frank Benson, Joseph R. DeCamp, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Willard Metcalf, Robert Reid, Edward R. Simmons, John Henry Twachtman, Edmund Charles Tarbell, and Julian Alden Weir. TROMPE L'OEIL - A French phrase meaning "deceives the eye," which describes art that aims to convince the viewer that the painted objects are real; also called illusionism. |
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