original digital art - pigment prints

Original Article Black & White Vision

Original Article Colorized Vision

I find I can’t help mocking the whole concept of original art. This is obviously the same digital painting - but one has color and one doesn’t. In this case, the color wasn’t removed but added - yet they are both original.

They are also both original creations by the artist - separate files and master images. Each print is also an original because that is how they were intended - to be printed. I wouldn’t dream of hanging a monitor and it doesn’t look as good as printed at the right size.

But here again is the rub - digital doesn’t necessarily have a right size and the prints don’t have a right term. Art prints sound too much like a reproduction - giclee does as well. Pigment print I saw recently at the de Young - and as much as I like that term - it doesn’t have the power of etching or lithograph.

New mediums use a different language to create and perhaps communicate, but also require a new language to be accepted.

See Also

• Image Guide 1 to Blogsite - not only can I find previous articles by a thumbnail digital image - but so can you - - not always completely up to date but still
• More About Giclee and Pigment Prints - to my point that such technology is mostly used for reproductions albeit excellent ones
• de Young Exhibition - Guise: Recent Prints by Deborah Oropallo - though there is explanation about how these wonderful fun images were created - just “pigment prints” were used to define the actual pieces in the show