Giclee Print Canvas Art Forms
Giclee prints developed in the 1980, it differs from many art styles. Giclee means to squirt, spray or spurt and describes the method in oil paintings in this style. The name of Giclee print was know since 1991 when Jack Dunganee coined the phrase giclee. It is a unique art form today, it is beautiful and not only just a derivative of other art forms, it may surpass older styles.
Early Giclee Printing
The first giclee prints were not final finished digital canvas art, it were used as prepress proofs. These proofs were printed on Iris Graphics printers and used to ensure color matching before final production. While these early giclee proofs were ok for the prepress proofing process, their inks degraded rapidly which made them a poor choice for long-term fine art reproduction.
However, giclee printing evolved and Improvements were made to the inks used and additional printing substrates were added, allowing for improved, archival quality longevity and a variety of finishing options. As giclee printing evolved, fine artists began to see the value of this method of fine art reproduction. Not only had the printing process improved the longevity of the prints, the colors, hues, and tones had remained true to the original. In addition, giclee prints could be printed on many different types of medium including canvas, watercolor paper, fine art paper, and photo-based paper.
Modern Giclee Printing
Nowadays, giclee printing involves high resolution scanning of original two dimensional fine art pieces, for example, watercolors, oil paintings and photographs. Massive inkjet printers using 8-color or 12-color printing processes print giclee prints. This results in high quality fine art reproductions with results on par with silver-halide and gelatine prints.
Giclee printing has become a form of on demand fine art reproduction as digital prints can be made at any time as soon as the artwork has been scanned and digitized. Just as a personal computer user can send a digital photo to an inkjet printer as needed, so too can a professional giclee printing company send the digital file to a giclee printer. Artists and photographers either have the option to mass produce prints or create signed, limited edition runs.
Printing in fine art reproductions
Many oil painting suppliers also apply print in their oil painting reproductions which we usually call it print plus painted version painting although themselves claim this as handmade oil paintings too. They usually print the photos on canvas, sometimes just print outlines and get artists add paints on it. As we see the finished works, they doesn’t looks any different with handmade oil paintings, they can even fool trained eyes. But they can fool the time, as time goes by, the paints will peel off.
In a word, Giclee printing has evolved from its early roots as a prepress proofing tool to a high quality fine art reproduction method. Welcome to atlandbiz.com for canvas art and photo to painting service.
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