artist's proof - One of a small group of prints set aside from an edition for an artist's use; a number of printer's proofs are sometimes also done for a printer's use. An artist's proof is typically one of the first proofs from a limited edition of prints, for the artist's own copyright use, and marked as an A.P., and not numbered. Artist's proofs generally draw a higher price than other impressions . The equivalent in French is épreuve d'artiste , abbreviated E.A.
giclée - French for "sprayed ink." A sophisticated printmaking process, today typically produced on an IRIS ink -jet printer, capable of producing millions of colors using continuous- tone technology . Also a print resulting from this process, also called an Iris print. Giclées are often made from photographic images of paintings in order to produ ce high quality , permanent reproductions of them. The extra-fine image resolution possible in this printing process permits retention of a high degree of fine detail from the original image, rendering deeply saturated colors having a broad range of tonal values . A giclée should be printed either on a fine fabric or archival quality white paper using bio-degradable water-soluble inks. After the process of printing it, a giclee specialist should examine the painting with special materials to make any necessary corrections, and apply a final, thin, transparent coating for maximum permanence . (pronounced gee-clay') [Thanks to Stanislav Tsiperson of Art Collection Group .]
lithography -In the graphic arts , a method of printing from a prepared flat stone or metal or plastic plate , invented in the late eighteenth century. A drawing is made on the stone or plate with a greasy crayon or tusche , and then washed with water. When ink is applied it sticks to the greasy drawing but runs off (or is resisted by) the wet surface allowing a print — a lithograph — to be made of the drawing. The artist, or other print maker under the artist's supervision, then covers the plate with a sheet of paper and runs both through a press under light pressure. For color lithography separate drawings are made for each color. (pr. le-thah'gruh-fee)
remarque - In printmaking , most often in etchings , a sketch originally made by the artist on the margin of his plate to test his tools, often to test the degree of the mordant 's biting before immersing the entire plate in the acid bath . Because such remarques were originally intended to be scraped or burnished away before the final edition of the plate is printed, a print with a remarque is often called a remarque proof . In the nineteenth century such remarques came to be so valued that they were often retained as part of the finished print. The subjects of these little drawings typically relate in some way to the
larger image.
serigraphy - A stencil method of printmaking in which an image is imposed on a screen of silk or other fine mesh, with blank areas coated with an impermeable substance, and ink is forced through the mesh onto the printing surface . Also called silkscreen process and screen-printing. A serigraph is a print made by this method.
