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Education

COLLECT WISELY

Love the art you collect.

Develop an eye for good art. Assess technical ability, vision, imagination, and innovativeness.

Develop an eye for quality, physical condition, materials used and authenticity.

Be price conscious - the artist reputation, size/complexity, and state of art market determine price.

Begin by collecting less expensive works. Protect yourself against a plunge that turns out to be unwise.

Know the artist. Create a relationship with new artists who are beginning to be accepted, shown in galleries and museums, spoken or written about.

Learn about the artist - where he or she was educated. When and where he or she has exhibited, who has collected his or her work.

Keep abreast of movements/trends in art. Fashion in contemporary art is short lived.

Avoid buying at the top of a trend.

Build a long-term relationship with an art gallery or dealer.

Introducing Giclée Prints The art of fine art printing has become even more precise with the advent of the revolutionary Giclée (ghee-clay) printing process. A Giclée print is as rewarding visually as it is technically amazing. For brilliant, exquisite color and razor sharp detail it is unsurpassed. This type of art reproduction is quickly becoming the new standard in the art industry, and is widely embraced for its quality by major museums, galleries, publishers, and artists. A Giclée print is simply the closest duplication of an original artwork that is humanly, mechanically, or technically possible.
The cornerstone of this process are enhanced digital ink jet printers which are specifically designed for rigorous and precise criteria of fine art collectors and connoisseurs of museum quality, limited edition prints.
The word Giclée itself is French, and means spurt or squirt, in this meaning,, "spray of ink". From a hundred ink jets more than a million droplets of ink per second are sprayed on a canvas or watercolor paper spinning on a drum. Once completed an image is comprised of almost twenty billion droplets of ink. The latest Giclée printing technology enhanced the standard four-color process to an eight-color process. The resulting print has no perceptible dot pattern, and endless array of richly saturated color, and every nuance of the original image. The most archival, water based light-fast inks available in the world are used. The latest inks guarantee a 70-year light-fastness and a UV-resistance under museum archival condition.
Beyond this description, a Giclée print simply must be seen to be fully appreciated.