Giclee Art Prints An Affordable Alternative To The Real Thing

Giclee (zhee-klay) is a French word that is a feminine noun that means a spray or a spurt of liquid. Giclee art prints connote a rise in printmaking technology. Images are generated from high resolution digital scans and printed with archival quality inks onto various surfaces including canvas, fine art, and photo-base paper.

The giclee printing process provides better color accuracy than any other means of reproduction. In giclee printing, there is no such thing as a limited edition since you can reproduce a digital image (by means of scanning the original art work) as many times and on as many types of surfaces as you wish.

What are the advantages of giclee art prints?

Giclee prints are an affordable alternative to artists who wish to mass produce their work, but want to reproduce their art on-demand. Once an image is digitally archived, additional reproductions can be made with minimal effort and reasonable cost. Archived files will not deteriorate in quality like negatives and film do.

Giclee printing can be reproduced to almost any size and onto various media, giving the artist the ability to customize prints for the demands of his client.

There are plenty of examples of giclee prints that can be found in New York City at the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Chelsea Galleries. San Francisco is also a haven for giclee art as can be seen in the SF Museum of Modern Art and smaller galleries in downtown San Francisco.

Of course, giclee prints can also be sourced online! In fact, purchasing them over the great WWW is one of the easiest and most convenient ways to acquire these art prints.