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Welcome to Canvas Cognescenti, a informational website offering a guide to canvas art and canvas prints. The site offers a convenient route to tried-and-tested suppliers of canvas art, digital prints, art materials and printable media.

inkjet & GiclÉe prints

Printed canvas art, or Giclée as it's sometimes known, is an exciting development in the world of art and interior design. Using inkjet printing technology, it is now possible to print directly onto heavyweight art medias such as cotton and polyester canvas.

The advantage of printing with inkjet technology over older methods such as screen printing is that the artwork can be printed in much higher resolution. With screen prints, the image is composed of regular patterns of visible dots, gradiented to provide varying tones.

By contrast, inkjet technology utilises a fine spray of microscopic ink droplets, to achieve a much more detailed print, allowing spectaular reproductions of photos and artwork.

The Ascendency of Canvas Prints

The increase in quality of printed canvasses has been coupled with a surge in popularity, and there are a huge number of online retailers offering a canvas art product. This explosion of a new medium has driven prices down, and enabled many more people to decorate their home with high quality artwork. Consumers no longer need to pay lofty gallery prices in order to furnish their space with contemporary artwork.

Of course, many will prefer the uniqueness and prestige associated with original paintings, which still command high price-tags. However, the prints created by contemporary digital artists are still original prints, as defined by the International Fine Print Dealers Association:

"The distinction as to whether a digital print is an “original print” is determined by whether the work was created by the artist to be realized as a print. A digital print of a work that originated as a painting or drawing is a reproduction and therefore is not an original print."

We can see that the new generation of digital canvas art provides the opportunity to own original prints, outside the costly realm of numbered limited editions and lithographic reproductions. A full interior can be filled with exciting artwork at a much lower cost than was previously possible before the advent of modern canvas art.

Shopping Online for Canvas Art

In spite of the growing popularity for this new art format, large high street vendors have been slow to stock canvas print ranges. High street chains require large supply volumes at low cost, and perhaps this is incongruous with the hand crafted nature of canvas art.

The largest presence is certainly online, and search engines such as Google provide access to a busy virtual marketplace where artists sell their own canvas art ranges direct by mail order.

This variety of suppliers choice means that you can select from a huge range of designs, from abstract to floral, landscape to celebrities. The web provides the ultimate choice of canvas art for those looking for individual and exclusive artwork.

To make this choice easier, we have compiled a list of canvas art-related websites, of interest to buyers and manufacturers alike...

Canvas Art Suppliers

The following artists, photographers, suppliers and manufacturers listed here have qualified to feature here by providing high quality products or services in their sector.

To be featured on Canvas Congescenti, sites must either be authoritative, providing useful information on canvas art and canvas prints, or a company that offers an exceptional quality product. We review all submissions thoroughly and only the best are considered for inclusion.

- Canvas Cognescenti Canvas Art Team

PhotoLinks - The Photography Network - Get in touch with the finest photographers and photography suppliers from around the world.

Galleries Online - Useful directory of UK-based art suppliers and artist galleries.

Art Exchange - Simply the best place on earth to buy or sell art
Art-exchange.com is your best source for wall art decor as well as three-dimensional art. Their inventory of over 70,000 works runs the spectrum from still life prints to original masterworks.

ArtsrepubliK - Online gallery of Contemporary Chinese Art
ArtsrepubliK are a non-profit organisation dedicated to the support, finance and promotion of Education and Arts for artists in developing far east nations. We sell Chinese contemporary art internationally, through exhibitions and online.

Contemporary abstract art work and painting - Contemporary abstract painting and art work by chumthang.org from the North East India with a mission to act as a catalyst in initiating contemporary art and related activities.

Abstract art prints and modern art prints by Artist Van Renselar Limited edition modern art prints by emerging abstract artist Van Renselar.

More suppliers coming soon...

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