[color=#6699cc - Good day! [color=#6699cc - Understanding Giclee Prints for modern home wall decor. [color=#6699cc - Giclee (zhee-klay) - The French word "giclee" is a feminine noun that means a spurt of liquid. The word may have been derived from the French verb "gicler" meaning "to squirt". [color=#6699cc - Images are generated from high resolution digital scans and printed with archival quality inks onto different substrates including canvas and photo-base paper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gicl%C3%A9e - Giclee is a neologism coined in 1991 by printmaker Jack Duganne for fine art digital prints made on inkjet printers. The name basically applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process made-up in the late 1980s but has since come to mean any inkjet print. It is often used by print shops to describe high quality printing. [color=#6699cc - Giclee prints are advantageous to artists who do not find it appropriate to mass produce their work, but want to reproduce their art as needed. [color=#6699cc - Numerous examples of giclee prints can be found in New York City at the http://www.metmuseum.org/ - Metropolitan Museum, the http://www.metmuseum.org/ - Museum of Modern Art and the http://chelseagallerymap.com/ - Chelsea Galleries. Recent auctions of giclee prints have fetched $10,800 for Annie Leibovitz, $9,600 for Chuck Close, and $22,800 for Wolfgang Tillmans. https://www.etsy.com/il-en/listing/499147278/giclee-art-print-n-25-giclee-art-print - At this time you can order original Giclee abstract art at Etsy shops. [color=#6699cc - Bye! and Best Regards
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