2007-02-08 22:22:07 · 9 answers · asked by sm 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
Paintings are "one offs" and the artist has sat and slaved on them for hours and sometimes days to get them right. Prints are turned out in the thousands by a machine which runs at 15,000 prints an hour. Do not have a print in your house - only hang real paintings on your wall - they do not have to be expensive
2007-02-10 02:28:42 · answer #1 · answered by Professor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My wife was commissioned to do a painting, this is obviously the 'ORIGINAL' watercolour in this case. The person who commissioned the painting then wanted copies of this to sell /supply to his friends, colleagues, etc. These were 'PRINTS' of the original and were done as a limited edition run of 200. Not all prints are part of a limited edition run. Limited edition runs of prints, each print is numbered for example; 21/200, meaning twenty first print of only two hundred. Each one is still individually signed by the artist and numbered as I have explained. Don't get the idea that all prints are copies of painting. Etchers and printers also produce PRINTS of limited runs. In this case the prints could be produced by a number of methods. Such as from a etched copper plate, lino print, wood block or other. Hope this helps!
2007-02-09 07:38:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Prints are exactly as the name suggests.. printed. Prints can be made from paintings, photography, or any other type of art work with a paper medium . In the context of paintings prints are effectively photocopies. Posters (ie lithography) for example, is a form of printed art.
2007-02-09 06:35:23 · answer #3 · answered by phronima 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are lots of different sorts of 'printing' which produce images. However, if you buy a print of a painting, it is simply a mechanical reproduction of the original. There is no paint involved - the printing is similar to that you find in a magazine. If you get a magnifying glass and look very closely at the print you'll see lots of different coloured dots - they make up the image.
2007-02-09 06:28:01 · answer #4 · answered by Roxy 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sorry to say that, folks, but I think our friend is not asking about prints but ETCHINGS or engravings.
Etchings, an art in which a.o. the Japanese are very great artists (Watanabe for example) are made by engraving figures on a copper plate, using acid and other techniques that are quite difficult to practise. Then you put the appropriate amount of ink (black or coloured) on the copper surface and apply paper.
Most great artists made some famous etchings.
Look at the site I refer you too.
Oh yes, another point : the first prints are better than the latest ones -that is why the copies are numbered- and after a certain numbers of copies are made the copper support is no more usable.
It's great art, but very, very difficult!
2007-02-10 03:48:11 · answer #5 · answered by jacquesh2001 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The painting is the original. Prints are the copies of that painting.
2007-02-09 06:29:37 · answer #6 · answered by Take me to Venice 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A painting is an original, a print is a copy (ie like a photocopy)
Originals are more expensive, and they are the only one, prints, there could be thousands of them all the same.
2007-02-09 06:52:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A print is a copy that has been printed not painted
2007-02-09 06:26:10 · answer #8 · answered by mrbatfink 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
paintings are drawn by humans with hands and prints are those made using machines, but any where colour(also called paints) is the common thing used.
2007-02-09 06:31:41 · answer #9 · answered by sandeep 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋