At Virtosu Art Gallery You can shop modern art prints made by famous artists from around the world and curate a gallery quality artwork wall in your home.

There is A Fine Art Printing a phrase used to refer to an extremely higher quality print.

Fine art prints are printed from digital files using archival quality inks and onto acid free art paper.

When looking for a print that will last for decades afterward choose a paper that is free. It is the content in several papers that makes them turn yellow, brittle & crack over time. Our newspapers are all acid free and made with 100% cotton fibres, this makes certain your print will look good in many years as it did the day it was published.

The printers are high end machines with 8 or 12 ink colourants and therefore have a color gamut. These colours when mixed together are able to produce millions of colours that are different. They've a color range than is larger than your large format printer that is typical.

Just what are prints? Sold en masse and an misconception novice collectors often have is that all prints are reproductions -- like posters hanging on a dorm room wall reproduced. Yet the truth of the matter is that prints, even on those occasions when they do take the form of a poster, are artworks in their own right. They keep the marks, as well as the trace of the artist's hand with. The prints created by our favorite artists are as original as photographs, paintings, or their sculptures -- there is just more of them.

Printmaking is an art. Because of this, original prints have been known to sell at auctions for over a million USD. Of course, not all kinds of prints hit into the financial stratosphere this way. Prints that are collecting can be a affordable way to develop a respectable art collection as we'll see.

Buying and Collecting Prints: What to Know

An experienced dealer will understand how to assess a print by the sort of the absence or presence of watermarks paper it's printed on, the overall size of Pride Parade art print at Virtosu Art Gallery this sheet and the consistency of the impression. Having said this, first editions are almost always valuable, so don't be afraid to ask questions, and consult with specialists. It's not a matter of precaution, but an extension of being interested in an artist's work which should guide one's curiosity. When believing it's an authentic work overall, the thing to be wary about is purchasing a forgery. Since there has been which a print signed by the artist does raise its value, one should make sure that whatever signature a print bears is valid.

Invent the artist's signature and unscrupulous persons are known to take a real print. Since a print signed in pencil by the artist is worth more than the same composition unsigned, one must be especially cautious if collecting works by A-list artists like Picasso, Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, etc.. But impressions are not always bad things. Art buyers on a budget are known to purposely look for unsigned impressions of the print.

Whether purchasing prints online or in a fair, an individual should always note how many editions of a print series there is. A monoprint, of will be worth much more. Make sure the price seems adequate to the rarity of this print. An artist will have determined well in advance prints he or she will make. Once an edition is finished, it can't be added to if the prints occur to market very well. There are proofs or artist duplicates, which are unavailable to the public. Contrary to popular belief, however, there is no difference in quality between the numbered prints (print #1, #2, #3, etc.), and the artist's proof.