
If you walk into an art gallery or go through their catalogue, chances are you would find a section reserved for reproduced artwork. It would come under the strange sounding name, giclée (pronounced zhee-clay). What exactly is giclée, you might wonder.
Giclée is a type of digital fine-art inkjet print, usually reproductions of artwork originally created in traditional media (paintings, drawing, and so on). Before the era of high quality digital printing, fine art prints were usually produced by conventional four-color offset lithography. Since the 1990s, that role has been taken over by giclée printing.
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