With the advent of state-of-the-art technology and the Internet it seems like everything is now possible. Portrait painting used to involve long hours of standing before an artist to complete your portrait. But nowadays, there are artists who can translate your photos into captivating oil paintings. Since original oil paintings are hard to acquire and are very exclusive to those who can afford it, oil painting reproduction technique became the best solution to acquiring original art pieces. Another interesting yet confusing aspect of Art is fine art print and fine art reproduction.
A fine art print was created by means of a transfer of ink from a matrix (or master) onto a chosen surface. The matrix can be a prepared screen, an etched metal plate and countless others. Most common would be a variety of high quality papers. Since this involves printmaking it is possible to produce multiples unlike drawings and paintings of which there is only one final piece.
Fine art reproduction, on the other hand, is a mechanical reproduction of a finished piece of art. Art reproduction range from posters to high quality archival images printed on canvas!
Simply put, ff an image is scanned was printed from an inkjet printer it is indeed a reproduction, however if an image was altered or created on a computer with the intent of printing it out onto paper as the ‘final work’ then it is an art print.