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2. Mat (picture framing) - Wikipedia

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   A picture (a photo or print, drawing, etc.) is placed beneath it, with the cutout framing it. The passe-partout serves two purposes: first, to prevent the image from touching the glass, and second, to frame the image and enhance its visual appeal. The cutout in the passe-partout is usually beveled to avoid casting shadows on the picture. The ...

3. Athena (retailer) - Wikipedia

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   Athena is a British art retailer and retail chain, which was founded in 1964.Today it sells fine art prints from a variety of UK artists. However it is best known for its iconic posters such as L'Enfant (a picture of a muscular man cradling a baby), The Lord of the Rings from 1976 by Jimmy Cauty, [1] the Tennis Girl poster from 1976 [2] and "Beyond City Limits", published in the 1990s.

4. Art photography print types - Wikipedia

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   Art photography print types refers to the process and paper of how the photograph is printed and developed. C-Print / Chromogenic Print: A C-Print is the traditional way of printing using negatives or slides, an enlarger, and photographic paper—through a process of exposure and emulsive chemical layers. Chromogenic color prints are composed ...

5. Chromolithography - Wikipedia

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   Chromolithographs are considered to be reproductions that are smaller than double demi [clarification needed], and are of finer quality than lithographic drawings which are concerned with large posters. Autolithographs are prints where the artist draws and perhaps prints his own limited number of reproductions. This is the true lithographic art ...

6. Fine-art photography - Wikipedia

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   There is now a thriving collectors' market for which the most sought-after art photographers will produce high quality archival prints in strictly limited editions. Attempts by online art retailers to sell fine photography to the general public alongside prints of paintings have had mixed results, with strong sales coming only from the ...

7. Thomas Kinkade - Wikipedia

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   William Thomas Kinkade III (January 19, 1958 – April 6, 2012) [2] [3] was an American painter of popular realistic, pastoral, and idyllic subjects. [3] He is notable for achieving success during his lifetime with the mass marketing of his work as printed reproductions and other licensed products by means of the Thomas Kinkade Company.