Giclée prints on canvas:
They look exquisite, beautiful, impressive and elegant. Their "Museum Quality" gives you the prestige of a serious fine art collector. The natural texture of the canvas gives the print the exact look and feel of original paintings.
What is Giclée, and why is it the next best thing to owning the original?
Giclée is an advanced printmaking process for creating high quality fine art reproductions. The attainable quality that Giclée printmaking affords makes the reproduction virtually indistinguishable from the original artwork. The result is wide acceptance of high quality Giclées by galleries, museums, and private collectors.
How does a Giclée differ from a traditional print (a lithograph)? Giclée printmaking derives its quality from its seemingly “dot less” imaging technology which contrasts with traditional fine art prints which typically relies on printing screen pattern dots to reproduce full-range color. Because traditional offset printing dot patterns are detectable to the unaided eye, it is less desirable than Giclée fine art prints for fine art reproduction. Traditional offset prints are typically restricted to papers that widely vary from what the original artwork was created on especially when reproducing acrylic or oil on canvas. The Giclée process enables reproduction on virtually the same media as the original artwork whether it is on canvas.
The result is a reproduction that is virtually indistinguishable from the original artwork.
Museum-quality Giclée reproductions are recognized as "the next best thing” to owning the original and can be found in the world's finest museums and art galleries or by the creator the art painters.
Based on independent research and testing, there are various image permanence ratings for each combination of ink and media used in Giclée printmaking.
They use the Giclée Printing Process to ensure a print with brilliant, exquisite colour and razor sharp detail, specifically designed to meet the rigorous and precise criteria of fine art collectors and connoisseurs of museum quality, limited edition prints. Giclée prints have been shown at numerous major museums and galleries around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum (NY), the Museum of Modern Art NY), Chelsea Galleries (NY), the Los Angeles Musuem of Contemporary Art, the Los Angeles County Museum, the National Museum of Art (Washington D.C.) and the British Museum (London).What is a Limited Edition? A limited edition is a series of identical prints produced in limited quantities.
Usually individually numbered and signed by the artist. An edition number that reads 110/297, for example from Frank Dammers, means print number 110 from an edition size of 297 prints. More than the edition numbers 297 from the work of Frank Dammers are fake.