The word is giclée and it's not made up, it's French. It means a jet of liquid which squirts out of something. It's also used of a burst of machine-gun fire.
Like Lik and Vettriano and others, you seem to misunderstand fundamentally what matters to the art world. Rhine II is not supposed to be representative of what was in front of the camera. B > On 23 Feb 2015, at 02:26, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > > Oh, no I'm not saying that. I can't remember where I read this but there was > an on line article about Rhine II showing the original scene. There wasn't > just one ugly factory removed by Photoshopery, but the entire horizon of ugly > factories was removed. When I say heavily Photoshopped I mean it, when that > much retouching is involved, you're no longer working with a photograph per > se, but some other kind of digital artwork. I've removed entire tourists from > images I've shown, the difference being that I didn't fundamentally change > the actual scene, just a movable element that moved into frame that I didn't > notice. The only way the scene that Rhine II is supposed to represent, could > exist, would be with judicious applications of high explosives and heavy > machinery to remove the debris. > > Gileec is a made up word to give inkjet images the imprimatur of an Art > technique as calling them inkjet images simply confuses the rubes or is it > the other way around... > > I remember the first time I was asked if one of my exhibited images was a > Giléec*, at the time I didn't honestly know... > > *Strangely the first e is supposed to have an acute accent over it but the > Windows Character Map utility doesn't seem to have that character I had to > steal it from Wikapedia and it may not display properly on other peoples > systems... > > > >> On 2/22/2015 7:59 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: >> Not that I disagree with the bulk of your sentiments here -- I said >> much the same to my wife at dinner about admiring the guy's marketing >> skills -- but you appear to be stating that "photographs" effectively >> cease to exist once chemicals and negatives are out of the loop. An >> idea I vehemently disagree with. >> >> DSLRs, software and inkjet prints are all part of the new photograpy >> and thus produce photographs. >> >> >>> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 6:52 PM, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> The quote from the London Gallery owner is pretty telling, not so much about >>> Lik, but certianly about the Art photography marked. Let's see, Rhine II, >>> wasn't exactly a photograph, it was a heavily Photoshopped inkjet, (Oh, I'm >>> sorry, perhaps I should have used the word Gilcee instead of inkjet), print. >>> Yet I'll bet that gallery owner didn't blink an eye when it sold for $1.3 >>> million. From what I've seen of Lik's work it doesn't require eye bleach, >>> (such as Thomas Kinkade's did). It just seems that he's found a way to >>> legally separate money from rich people with more money than brains without >>> needing a middle man. More power to him I say. >>> >>> >>>> On 2/22/2015 4:39 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: >>>> So is Lik's work resellable for a lot of money? Apparently, not so much. >>>> >>>> >>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/business/peter-liks-recipe-for-success-sell-prints-print-money.html >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve >>> immortality through not dying. >>> -- Woody Allen >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> > > > -- > I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve > immortality through not dying. > -- Woody Allen > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
