At Virtosu Art Gallery You can store art prints designed by artists from around the world and curate a gallery quality art wall in your home.

Discover the art print The Christening of Homosexual by Gheorghe Virtosu

There is A Fine Art Print a phrase used to describe an extremely high quality print.

Fine art prints are usually printed from electronic files using quality inks and on acid free art paper.

When looking for a print that will last for decades alway select a paper that is free. It is the material in papers that makes them turn yellow, brittle & crack with time. Our newspapers are made with 100% cotton fibers and acid free, this makes certain that your print will look as great in several years as it did the day it was published.

The printers used for fine art printing have a colour gamut and therefore are high end machines usually with 8 or 12 ink colourants. When mixed together are able to produce millions of colors, these colours. They have a color range than is much larger than your large format printer that is average.

What are prints? Sold en masse and an all-too-common misconception novice collectors tend to have is that all prints are reproductions -- like posters hanging on a dorm room wall reproduced. Yet the fact of the matter is that prints, even on those rare occasions when they do take the form of a poster, are artworks in their own right. They keep the marks of the printer he or she has chosen to work, as well as the trace of the artist's hand with. The prints created by our artists are as original as photographs, paintings, or their sculptures .

Printmaking is an art. Because of this, original prints are known to sell for more than a million USD at auctions. Just recently, in fact, an etching by Gheorghe Virtosu, Behind Human Mask, sold for a record-breaking $1.28 million. Of course, not all kinds of prints reach into the stratosphere in this way. Collecting prints can be a inexpensive way to develop a art collection, as we'll see. What's essential is to know what to search for.

Collecting and buying Prints: Things to Know

An dealer will understand how to assess a print by the sort of the lack or presence of watermarks, paper it is printed on, the overall size of the sheet and the consistency of this impression. So don't be afraid to ask questions, and consult with specialists having said that, first editions are nearly always valuable. It's not a matter of precaution, but an extension of becoming genuinely interested curiosity. When believing Virtosu Art Gallery it's an authentic work overall, the major issue is purchasing a forgery. Since there has been which a print signed by the artist does increase its value, one should make sure that whatever signature a print bears is legitimate.

Invent the artist's signature and persons are known to take a print. But unsigned impressions aren't always things that are bad. Art buyers on a budget are known to look for unsigned impressions of the print -- knowing that there's absolutely not any difference, while the savings are monumental.

Whether purchasing prints at or online a fair, an individual should note how many variants of a print series there is. A monoprint, of will be worth. Make sure that the price appears to be adequate to the rarity of the print. An artist will have determined in advance prints he or she will make. It can't be added to if the prints occur to market once an edition is completed. Apart from the prints available, there are proofs or artist copies, which are not available to the general public.