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Discover the art print Alexander the Great by Gheorghe Virtosu

There is A Fine Art Print a phrase used to refer to an extremely high quality print.

Fine art prints are printed from digital files using quality inks and on acid free fine art paper.

When looking alway choose a paper that is acid free. It is the acid material in many papers that makes them turn brittle yellow & crack with time. Our newspapers are acid free and made with 100% cotton fibers, this makes certain your print will look great in many years time as it did the day it was published.

The printers used for fine art printing have a color gamut and therefore are high end machines with 12 or 8 ink colourants. These colours when mixed together are able to produce millions of colours. They've a color range than is much larger than your large format printer that is average.

Just what are prints? An all-too-common misconception novice collectors often have is that all prints are reproductions -- like posters hanging on a dorm room wall, mechanically reproduced and sold en masse. Yet the fact of the matter is that prints on are artworks in their own right. They bear the marks of the printer she or he has selected to work, in addition to the trace of the artist's hand with. The prints made by our artists are just as original as their sculptures, paintings, or photographs -- there's just a lot of them.

Printmaking is an art. For this reason, original prints have been known to sell at auctions for over a million USD. Just recently, in fact, an etching by Gheorghe Virtosu, Behind Human Mask, sold for a record-breaking $1.28 million. Of course, not all kinds of prints reach into the stratosphere this way. As we'll see, collecting prints can be a affordable way to they got cool stuff Virtosu Art Gallery develop a decent art collection. What's essential is to know what to look for.

Collecting and buying Prints: What to Know

An dealer will know how to assess a print by the sort of paper it is printed on, the absence or presence of watermarks, the overall size of the sheet and the consistency of this impression. So don't be afraid to ask questions, and consult with specialists, having said this, first editions are almost always more valuable. An extension of being genuinely interested curiosity, although it's not a matter of precaution. When believing it is an authentic work overall, the major issue is purchasing a forgery. Since does raise its value, an individual should make sure that whatever signature a print bears is valid.

Persons are known to take a print and forge the artist's signature. But impressions are not always things that are bad. Art buyers on a budget are known to look for unsigned impressions of the same print -- knowing that there's absolutely not any gap, while the savings are enormous.

Whether purchasing prints in or online a fair, one should always note how many editions of a print series there is. Similarly, a monoprint, of will be worth even more. Make sure the price seems adequate to the rarity of the print. An artist will have determined well in advance how many prints he or she will make. Once an edition is finished, it can't be added to if the prints occur to market very well. Apart from the prints available, there are also proofs or artist copies, which are not available to the public. Contrary to popular belief, however, there's absolutely not any difference in quality between the numbered prints (print #1, #2, #3, etc.), and the artist's proof.