Success was not immediate for Artist Jack Vettriano
Artist Jack Vettriano (birth name Jack Hoggan) was born in Fife, Scotland in 1951. But unlike many gifted artists who start painting while in their teens, Vettriano only began teaching himself to paint after a girlfriend gave him a set of watercolor paints for his 21st birthday.
In 1989, at the age of 38, he felt ready to show his paintings in public and submitted two works to the Royal Scottish Academy’s annual exhibition. Both were accepted and sold immediately, after which the artist was approached by several galleries wanting to sell his work..
In 2004 The Singing Butler, Vettriano’s best known painting, was sold at Sotheby’s for close to £750,000. In the same year he was awarded an OBE for Services to the Visual Arts.
Although his work is often dismissed by art critics as devoid of imagination, Vettriano is one of the most commercially successful living artists. While his original works regularly fetch six figure prices, it is believed he earns more from the sale of reproductions.
And that’s fortunate for art enthusiasts who appreciate his work as prints by Jack Vettriano are now readily available and affordable for those who can’t pay large sums of cash for originals.
Thanks to innovative technology and breakthroughs in digital printing, it’s now feasible to produce art reproductions at budget prices. The quality of fine art prints has simultaneously improved. Advanced inkjet printers using a broad range of inks can produce brilliant, saturated colors, outstanding detail and subtle tones previously only manageable with the most expensive of machinery.
This means the normal art enthusiast now has access to Vettriano posters and fine art prints reproduced from his original artwork. Reproductions are made on archival quality materials and often include stretched canvas prints, giving an even more authentic appearance.
When looking for quality reproductions, it’s worth checking if the work is available as a Giclée print. Giclée prints (pronounced “zhee-clay”) are fine art reproductions using special inkjet machines that print on a variety of paper surfaces or substrates, including textures such as watercolor paper, canvas, or artist textured vinyl.
When selecting a fine art print, one has various framing alternatives available that allow one to stamp the artwork with individual taste, ensuring a degree of originality.
Selecting a frame that complements not only the print but also the room’s interior will add immensely to one’s appreciation of the artwork. Unless you’re very daring, it’s safest to keep it simple – contemporary frames with contemporary art, and so forth.
Using established interior design concepts allied with tasteful selection of the artist’s framed prints, it’s now quite easy to decorate your home or office walls to look like a personalized art gallery – without breaking your budget.
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