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- About Giclee
The word "Giclee" (zhee-clay) is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray."
Giclee are created using a sophisticated printmaking process. Giclee prints were originally produced on an IRIS ink-jet printer, capable of producing millions of colors using continuous-tone technology. Today the technology has improved greatly and the machines capable of producing these high quality works have also grown.
The word Giclee, as a fine art term, has come to be associated with prints using fade-resistant "archival" inks and the inkjet printers that use them. These printers use the CMYK color process but have multiple cartridges for variations of each color based on the CcMmYK color model (e.g. light magenta and light cyan inks in addition to regular magenta and cyan); this increases the apparent resolution and color gamut and allows smoother gradient transitions. We also use light black, photo black and matte black.
Giclee are made from original art or photographic images of fine art paintings in order to produce high quality, permanent fine art reproductions. The extra-fine image resolution possible in this printing process permits retention of a high degree of fine detail from the original fine art image, rendering deeply saturated colors with a broad range of tonal values.
Prior to the last decade, most methods for fine art reproduction left artists with images that were substandard and undesirable. With the introduction of giclee canvas art, that is beginning to change. Artists now have a medium to produce vivid reproductions of their work. These reproductions are not only vividly accurate, but they're also created on the same type of canvas that the original was painted on. This gives these reproductions an authentic gallery-like appearance and feel, something that had previously been unachievable in the field of art.
The Giclee is quickly becoming the new standard in the art industry, and is widely embraced for its astonishing quality by major museums, galleries, publishers and artists. Giclee on canvas is quite simply the closest replication of an original artwork that is currently possible. Another advantage of creating giclee on canvas is the detail of the reproductions, and the quality of the actual canvas and inks. Archival canvas and pigmented archival inks can last for over a hundred years without deteriorating or yellowing. As long as
it's kept out of extreme moisture or sunlight, Giclee on canvas is guaranteed to last for decades.
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