This post is in response to a discussion on LinkedIn entitled:
I would like to ask everyone about experiences with giclees. I know someone who has had canvas prints made of her original paintings onto stretchers and plans to sell (only) 150 of one image. She paid a fortune for the first 3 as they are "museum quality." She will number them and will charge the same as original artwork painted on canvas for them, although they will clearly be marketed as numbered print giclees. She will not be adding paint or pretending that they are original artwork, simply copies of her best silk paintings which are hard to reproduce. What is the consensus amongs the fine-art professionals here on LinkedIn?
quite a few years ago I became aware of the fact that some people use one part of a vegetable and other people throw that part out that the first people are using and eat the part that other people are throwing out - so I believe that all of this ---- hold your breathe ------does not matter - I will from now on always work with pure energy ----- the stuff that the Universe is made of in it's basic down to the the bare substance and will never ever work with oil paint - acrylic or even colored pencil any more - I will not however - knock anyone for utilizing whatever materials that they wish to or deem necessary to express themselves and their ideas with - and that is where I disagree with many of the comments that have been made here - and that will most probably post after this particular comment - it is not for anyone to criticize another as to what materials that they use to do their expressing themselves with - imagine the fine artists of the time that Munch created the "Scream" claiming that crayons were not a proper fine art material or in fact that making prints of the image was improper - this would definitely leave the world without what valuable images that we have to view today - Of course anyone can criticize another - but can you do as well with the materials and processes that you are criticizing for not being genuine fine art materials - can you spend enough hours-days-weeks-months and years as well as decades working with these materials in order to be able to express yourself as well with these as with any other materials available - and then if you have accomplished such proficiency and learned to create art by this means - would you stand for someone who has not done the same coming along and claiming that the materials that you have been working with - are somehow not valid - of course not - it just does not make sense and as time goes on - things will change whether the purist oil painters accept this or not - and as the use of the newer materials continues more and more ways of utilizing them to express whatever it is that needs to be expressed will reveal themselves -
