Nearly everybody loves fine art, and chances are you too would want to have a specimen displayed in your home. After all, who wouldn’t want a da Vinci, a Rembrandt, a Monet, a Renoir, a Goya, a Constable, a Van Gogh, a Cezanne, a Matisse, a Picasso, or a Dali to adorn their walls?
High art has been there since the dawn of civilization, but since the Renaissance i.e. the fourteenth century onwards, there is a deluge of sculptures, murals, gouache, watercolor, and oil paintings to choose from. In the closing decades of the last century, digital art too has made its way into the ranks of fine art. (more…)
Tags: Fine Art Reproductions, Giclee, Ink-jet Printing, Photo on Canvas, Printing on CanvasEveryone loves photographs
It is difficult to find a home where there isn’t a single photograph on display. It can be snaps of a family member; a beautiful landscape; some landmark you visited with your family on a vacation; or photos of your friends and dear ones. It can be the photograph of a special occasion, a much-loved pet or even an old family photograph.
People use photographs to adorn not only their homes, but also as items of office décor. Purposes vary from the decorative to advertising to the inspirational, to go with the ambience of the workplace.
Like a painting
Canvas on the other hand, has been associated with painting for centuries on end. Just say “canvas” and the first things that come to mind are gorgeous oil paintings hanging from the walls in art galleries and museums the world over.
Now just think: what if you could transfer your photographs to canvas and display them on the walls of your home? Wouldn’t that be a great idea? The checkered texture of the canvas would give the photographs an artistic edge aesthetically far superior to a poster or a print on photographic paper, wouldn’t it?
Tags: Giclee, Ink-jet Printing, Photo on Canvas, Printing on Canvas
If you walk into an art gallery or go through their catalogue, chances are you would find a section reserved for reproduced artwork. It would come under the strange sounding name, giclée (pronounced zhee-clay). What exactly is giclée, you might wonder.
Giclée is a type of digital fine-art inkjet print, usually reproductions of artwork originally created in traditional media (paintings, drawing, and so on). Before the era of high quality digital printing, fine art prints were usually produced by conventional four-color offset lithography. Since the 1990s, that role has been taken over by giclée printing.
History:
In the late 1980’s, the digital printing pioneers were looking for a new identity for the beautiful prints they had worked so hard to achieve. They wanted a distinction between their artistic work and the commercial pre-press proofs churned out by IRIS printers.
Initially, IRIS prints were not quite topnotch. Their color fastness was doubtful, and the prints tended to fade within a few years. It was also not possible to achieve a completely smooth transition of color gradients, so important for reproducing artwork. After all, they were used mainly to match colors before the mass scale print run. (more…)
Tags: Giclee, Ink-jet Printing, Photo on Canvas, Printing on Canvas