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GIONET ART and FRAME, Inc. specializes in the secondary art market. Most of our products are "Closed Edition" lithographs and serigraphs. "Open Edition" art is still available from the artist. "Closed Edition" art is no longer available from the original source. The price of art on the secondary market is relative to the quantity available. GIONET ART and FRAME, Inc. sells only quality pieces at below market value. Satisfaction guaranteed!
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ART SELECTION
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| BE SURE TO CHECK OUR WEBSITE FREQUENTLY |
| NEW PIECES ADDED CONTINUOUSLY!!! |
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| DEFINITIONS |
- A lithograph is a reproduction process using metal or stone plates to press different colored inks or dyes onto paper or canvas. Generally, at least four different plates are used that are not all the same image, but rather areas of the original image that overlap with one another as they are pressed onto the paper. The different colors then mix on the paper, reproducing all the colors of the original. Often, four separate plates are not enough to regain the color fidelity of the original, so print publishers use as many as they need to reproduce the color detail.
- A Serigraph is a reproduction process using various screens through which the colors are pressed onto paper or canvas. Like a lithograph, the various images on the screens overlap the colors which mix on the paper or canvas, reproducing the color fidelity of the original. Generally, the inks or dyes are thicker for serigraphs than for lithographs, coming closer in consistency to paint, thus giving serigraphs a look and feel that is closer to the original (especially if the original was a oil painting). Depending on the colors of the original, serigraphs are made from more numerous screens than the number of plates used to make a lithograph, generally making them more expensive but also more exacting.
- A Giclee or giclée [pronounced gzee-clay] is a high-grade reproduction using a digitized image that is sprayed onto the paper or canvas with a fine resolution ink-jet or bubble-jet printer. Although a giclee image is not pressed onto the substrate, it is generally referred to as a print. Unlike a lithograph or a serigraph, a giclee does not put each color down all at once, but rather prints the image out one dot or one pixel at a time. By using a wide variety of colors, each put on individually dot per dot, the colors of the reproduction can be very exacting, sometimes even capturing the subtle differences in color brought about by the brush-strokes of the original. Because each of the applied colors are not placed onto the substrate all at once, the giclee process takes much longer than a lithograph or serigraph, which is one reason giclees tend to be in a higher price range.
- A Cel is a broad term that encompasses most types of animation art. In its strictest interpretation, a cel is the plastic sheet, either cellulose acetate or cellulose nitrate, that animated characters are painted on. In practice, the term cel has come to mean that plastic sheet in combination with the outline and coloring of a character, object, and/or special effect. Outlines can be either hand-inked or Xerographically transferred to the sheet of plastic. Those outlines are then filled with color, either by hand-painting or a serigraphic process, to complete the cel.
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