Giclee is a form of fine art printing which is superior to any previous form of inkjet printing. Giclee (pronounced zhee-clay) is a French word that means a spray of liquid, which possibly derived from the word “gicleur” meaning “nozzle” or “to squirt.” All of the artwork at Imagekind is printed from high-resolution digital copies on several different museum quality media options. This method of art reproduction is perfect for those seeking a quick turnaround on their art prints but not sacrificing the level of detail and quality.

Unlike the traditional printing method of lithography, which only uses four colors – cyan, magenta, yellow and black, giclee prints typically consist of six colors – light cyan, cyan, light magenta, magenta, yellow and black, offering the best giclee prints for sale. However, at Imagekind we use the additional two colors of light black and light light black. This printing method results in an extensive color gamut allowing the print an exact true color representation. The lithography style of printing consists of the use of tiny dots of the four colors that confuse the eye into seeing colors not actually on the print. Giclee actually sprays and mixes the ink on the page creating the actual color desired, creating true giclee fine art prints.

In addition to the precise level of color representation available through the giclee printing system is the extensive media options available to print on. At Imagekind, we offer eight different paper types and two different canvas types that are widely used in the visual art world for prints and paintings, look tremendous, and will last for years. Whether you choose the giclee prints on canvas or paper the quality remains outstanding.

Coupled with the quality of printing and media options the affordability of giclee printing truly makes this the best way to transfer images onto paper. This method of printing is ideal for artists storing their images digitally, allowing for on-demand printing. There is no need to pre-print and mass-produce dozens of copies and risk inundation. Instead, choose to print when one is ordered, keeping a perfect level of supply and demand, cutting cost and hassle. The archival system we use at Imagekind ensures that all your online giclee prints remain safe and true to quality. There is no need to worry that your giclee wildlife prints will ever suffer from deterioration or other damaging aspects of traditional printing and storing method. The quality, media options, and on-demand printing Imagekind offers truly make affordable fine art giclee prints easily available.

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Pop Art began in the 1950’s but gained its true prominence in the 60s. Inspired from images
and ideas of popular culture in America and Britain, Pop Art is often characterized by the use of
common images found in advertising, consumer products, mass media, comics and other such
sources. The images found within Pop Art Pictures are easily and quickly recognizable to those
living within the period of the arts inception, but because trends and fads constantly change, the
understanding of the cultural significance of such images is often confusing to later generations.

Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and the British artist Richard Hamilton are just a few of the
many popular artists; however, it is Andy Warhol who is most iconic within this genre. The
style of Andy Warhols Pop Art draws on images of popular celebrities and advertisements taking
simplistic inspiration from a Campbell’s soup can or popular celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe
and Elizabeth Taylor to create some of his most famous pieces.

As most art movements are reactions against or responses to their predecessors, Pop Art is best
understood in light of the previous popular ideas of Abstract Expressionism and sought not only
to focus the genre on iconic images popular of the time, but, in so doing, allow art to be enjoyed
and more easily understood by all. By taking images and ideas of common society, Pop Art was
a direct reaction to the more elitist culture of previous art forms and allowed for a much broader
audience. However, as the beginning is inspired by the ending one, so too, the ending often
inspires the beginning of other forms of art. Thus, Pop Art is thought to be one of the last great
movements of Modern Art, thus issuing in an age of Contemporary or Postmodern Art.

The quick attraction and ease of accessibility that Pop Art allowed its audience soon created a
demand that required new ideas of production for the growing consumption of the artwork. It is
a strange irony in Pop Art that the images of mass-produced items, such as Campbell’s soup cans
and Coca-Cola, were soon mass-produced themselves. The mass-producing of Pop Art Paintings
caused a bit of controversy within the art community by requiring the ability to duplicate the
art easily, thus, as some felt, taking away the true inspiration of the art, and making it nothing
more than a consumer product. The artists recognized and even capitalized on this idea therefore
allowing the availability of the art in such mediums as Pop Art Posters.

Pop Art has changed the way art is understood, appreciated and consumed. Imagekind
understands the importance of allowing as many people to enjoy the art as possible, not
keeping it for a select few, but permitting all to access and enjoy. Peruse our Pop Art Gallery
paying special attention to the significance of the somewhat simplistic images of popular
advertisements, celebrities and products brought to the true consumer, the art consumer, in a
completely different light.

Postmodern art proves difficult to define for several reasons. Among those are the differences
between the broader distinctions of contemporary art as it relates to the more specific, what
genres of art are included in this more specific term and, most cumbersome, the relative inability
to specify exactly what postmodernism, in general, truly entails. In any case, one of the best,
and most basic understandings of this somewhat vague term, is that it truly is post-modern, or, to
spell it out truly, after modernism; which gives us not only a better understanding, but a clearer
starting point in the pursuit of that understanding.

There must withstand a clear distinction between the difference of contemporary and postmodern
art. The main reason for this distinction is that some disagree we truly are in a stage after
modernism, thus making the art produced not so much in disregard or contradictory to modern
art, but rather an extension or possibly a subgenre of that. Many subgenres fall under the
classification of modern art including impressionism, surrealism, cubism, pop and abstract art.
Therefore, some think that postmodern art is not really its own distinct art form, but rather a
subgenre of the larger context of modern art.

When dissecting the idea of postmodern art we must keep in mind the clear distinctive
characteristics included in the formation of an entirely different form of art. In other words,
we must be able to understand what distinguishes this genre of art from any other. As listed
above, modern art includes many different subgenres that give better definition, character and
understanding to the actual, larger genre. However, when trying to separate art into categories
of time, influence and style, there will usually always be some sort of discrepancy. In this
case, what some see as clearly modernist art, such as cubism, pop and abstract, other see as
postmodern, or at least precursors to that movement. The difficulty in defining this genre of art
comes from the confusion of what forms and influences get included.

In general, in order to understand this movement, one must pay clear attention to the name, in
order to get the best understanding and definition of what postmodernism truly entails. Though
the continual persistence of the relativity of definitions largely adopted within the postmodern
mindset, it is helpful to think in terms of after modernism. Most agree that it truly is a movement
that both arises from and simultaneously reacts against its predecessor.