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Community Involvement and Giving Back:
A portion of all procedes will go directly to B.L.I.N.D. A charity organized by Badu to provide community-based programs for inner city youth. Steven Lopez will also join Badu in providing a day of art for the children. Those dates will be announced soon.
Giclée:
Giclée (pronounced “zhee-clayâ€) is a French word meaning “a spraying of inkâ€. With the advent of giclee, the art of reproducing fine art has become even more precise. Giclées have the highest apparent resolution available today — as high as 1,800 dots per inch. In addition, since no screens are used, the prints have a higher apparent resolution than lithographs and a color range that exceeds that of serigraphy. Displaying a full color spectrum, gicleé prints capture every nuance of an original and have gained wide acceptance from artists and galleries throughout the world.
The patented printing technology utilizes microscopically fine droplets of ink to form the image. A print can consist of nearly 20 billion ink droplets. The microscopic droplets of ink vary in sizes (approximately the size of a red blood cell) and density. This unique patented feature produces a near continuous tone image, smoother gradation between tones, and a more finely differentiated color palette.
Limited Edition:
A limited edition is a series of identical prints, which are limited to a one-time printing of a certain number of pieces. The artist determines the size of the edition, and usually signs and numbers each individual piece.
By their nature of being limited in number, demand for certain limited edition prints can be greater than the number of reproductions produced for the edition. Once an edition is sold out from the publisher, which means that the print is no longer available from the publisher but may still be available from an authorized dealer, the prints are considered to be on the Secondary Market. This means that the print can be bought and sold by any dealer or individual, often above issue price, depending on supply and demand.
Artist’s Proof, A/P:
A small group of prints set aside from an edition for an artist’s or printer’s use. Typically some of the first prints pulled from a limited edition of prints are marked as an A.P. and [sometimes] left unnumbered. Artist’s proofs generally draw a higher price than other impressions.
