Art Terms

Genre
A style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners.

Gicle'e
'Gicle'e' (jee-clay) is French for "to spray or to flow. Gicle'e fine art editions are printed on many fine art media such as watercolor papers or even art canvas. At the artist's discretion, they can choose to reproduce their art on media other than the original, making it hard to distinguish between them.

Gouache
A method of painting with opaque colors, which have been ground in water and mingled with a preparation of gum; also, a picture thus painted. A gouache painting with watercolors has displays stunning light reflections different from transparent watercolors.

Hors Commerce (H.C.)
Hors Commerce (Not for Trade) is a term used in the past by where an artist would pull his graphics and mark them for business use only. Artwork would be entered in to competition and exhibitions. Virtually all artists will now introduce their graphic back into distribution through regular channels.