Dalí at Sea – Our Old Friend Salvador is Back, with Friends

“The surreal case of Dali’s art and the squandered legacy” from today’s Independent.

What ever happened to “caveat emptor?”

“Who will say that Hockney’s (digital) prints are not ‘original’ prints?” Not us, certainly.

Print Workshop Central received another interesting comment from Julia Matcham recently and I think it’s important enough to bring out to the first page and address it. Here’s Julia’s comment:

“I just thought I would draw people’s attention to the fact that David Hockney has just had an exhibition in London of inkjet prints entirely drawn into the computer using a graphics pad (as I do these days). As he says in the introduction to his catalogue (Annely Juda Gallery) ‘the computer is just a tool’. It is as good as you are.

“Autumn Leaves” by David Hockney

Who will say that Hockney’s prints are not ‘original prints’? I think the hand-print brigade are on a sticky wicket here! Not that I don’t appreciate that there are differences; just that definitions other than ‘ this print does not exist in any other form’ are out-of-date.”

Giclee Fraud Circles the Globe – What Can Be Done?

The News from Vancouver

Yesterday Andy MacDougall, longtime professional screen printer and Print Workshop Central‘s correspondent/sleuth in Royston, Vancouver Island, B.C., in Canada sent us a link to an article published a couple of weeks ago in the Vancouver Sun on one of our favorite subjects: giclee fraud. The author, David Baines, says, “I think I have found the perfect fraud. Perfect because, even though there is a mound of circumstantial evidence suggesting it is a fraud, I can’t prove it.”