The Photo Gifts

Giclee printing is a special form of art whereby photos are transferred onto canvas or another medium via advancements in printmaking technology. In a Gliclee print, the object or piece of artwork of interest is rendered as a high-resolution digital image. Then, long-lasting colored ink is used to reproduce the digitized image through a specialized printing process that can be applied to canvas, paper, and other art media of interest. It has been suggested that giclee printing yields longer life and higher fidelity color reproduction than other printing or archiving techniques.

Recently, a collection of giclee prints by an artist has been the inspiration of an artistic collaboration of another sort. The late giclee printer Genevieve (“Gen”) Monacelli was born in 1924 and worked at various jobs through her life, including as a canner, as an employee in the restaurant of her parents, as a government employee, a volunteer, and finally a mother. Unbeknownst to many, she also was an accomplished giclee printing artist in private until her death in 1997.

Her dramatist son, Patrick Riviere, inspired by and wanting to pay homage to his mother, entered into a collaboration with a former high school classmate, Laird Ogden, another dramatist in Ohio to stage a play that will launch the public display of his mother’s collection, beginning with five signed and numbered pieces that he hand-picked for an additional run and to be succeeded by a second limited edition printing before a larger scale printing is undertaken. This work follows upon a book of his mother’s work that Patrick completed with assistance from former high school theater instructor, Ms. Kate Konsigisor, to help the public appreciate the giclee prints by his mother.

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What exactly is giclee printing? The term giclee (to be uttered as gee’ clay) has its origin in French which means “to spray” or “squirt” which is exactly the way an inkjet printer functions. But, giclee printer is not the same as any normal inkjet printer and happens to be much bigger. Did you know that they are a little more than meter in breadth and are popularly referred to as “knitting machine” on account of their size and similarity in appearance?

In giclee printing, there is no screen or any other mechanical tool employed and hence there is no obvious dot screen design that can be seen. The image looks very close to the original painting in shade and tone. If giclee prints are kept away from the glare of the sun, they last for years and years. They make lovely photo gifts too.

Giclee prints can be had on any kind of paper as per the desire of the customer, but they look best on canvas. Since people normally prefer to have the reproduction of original paintings on canvas, giclee prints are also preferred on canvas so that they look as close as the original painting, not only in color, but also in texture and quality of the material. Giclee canvas prints as mentioned earlier are any day more durable than paper as they do not crease when rolled.

The process of giclee printing is carried out using highly sensitive ink-jet printers, having high resolution, multi-stage and seven color cartridges, giving cent per cent replica of original. The giclee printing has become very popular for getting photos on canvas, canvas prints or for making wall hangings and photo gifts.

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