What's the difference between a print and a poster?

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Imagine you are standing in art museum store.What's the difference between a print and a poster?

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[nq:1]Imagine you are standing in art museum store. What's the difference between a print and a poster?[/nq]
In my opinion, a print is a reproduction of an entire piece of original art. A poster is created as art, but may contain a reproduction of another piece of art.

Tony Cooper
Orlando, FL

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[nq:2]Imagine you are standing in art museum store. What's the difference between a print and a poster?[/nq]
[nq:1]In my opinion, a print is a reproduction of an entire piece of original art. A poster is created as art, but may contain a reproduction of another piece of art.[/nq]
That's very deep.

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[nq:2]Imagine you are standing in art museum store. What's the difference between a print and a poster?[/nq]
[nq:1]In my opinion, a print is a reproduction of an entire piece of original art. A poster is created as art, but may contain a reproduction of another piece of art.[/nq]
A poster may be art, and may be deliberately created as art, but most posters are not art. The essence of a poster is that it advertises something: a lost pet, a coming attraction, a lawnmowing service, a reward for a wanted person, a museum opening, a Parisian bistro, etc.

John Varela
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[nq:2]In my opinion, a print is a reproduction of an ... but may contain a reproduction of another piece of art.[/nq]
[nq:1]A poster may be art, and may be deliberately created as art, but most posters are not art. The essence ... pet, a coming attraction, a lawnmowing service, a reward for a wanted person, a museum opening, a Parisian bistro, etc.[/nq]
Of course, most prints aren't art, either, for various values of the word "art". As to posters, there's Toulouse Lautrec.

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[nq:2]In my opinion, a print is a reproduction of an ... but may contain a reproduction of another piece of art.[/nq]
[nq:1]A poster may be art, and may be deliberately created as art, but most posters are not art. The essence ... pet, a coming attraction, a lawnmowing service, a reward for a wanted person, a museum opening, a Parisian bistro, etc.[/nq]
I probably should have made the distinction between a strictly functional poster and an artistic poster that has a function.

Because of the "print vs poster" intent of the question, I was thinking only of the artistic poster that has a function. A poster advertising an art show, for example.
I can't conceive why anyone would question the difference between a print (of a work of art) and a strictly functional poster.

Tony Cooper
Orlando, FL

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[nq:1]Imagine you are standing in art museum store. What's the difference between a print and a poster?[/nq]
Technically speaking, a "print" is made by the artist (or perhaps his students or assistants) from hand-carved or -etched blocks. Signed & numbered photographic reproductions, printed by offset lithography or other commercial processes, are sometimes sold as "prints", but this practice is criticized as a form of misleading advertising.

A "poster" might be an original piece of artwork (Toulouse-Lautrec's are famous) or a print, but is more often a mass-produced reproduction.

Odysseus

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[nq:2]Imagine you are standing in art museum store. What's the difference between a print and a poster?[/nq]
[nq:1]In my opinion, a print is a reproduction of an entire piece of original art. A poster is created as art, but may contain a reproduction of another piece of art. Tony Cooper Orlando, FL[/nq]
Yes, I think so.

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[nq:2]Imagine you are standing in art museum store. What's the difference between a print and a poster?[/nq]
[nq:1]Technically speaking, a "print" is made by the artist (or perhaps his students or assistants) from hand-carved or -etched blocks. ... might be an original piece of artwork (Toulouse-Lautrec's are famous) or a print, but is more often a mass-produced reproduction.[/nq]
The original question was about the items for sale in a museum shop. I don't think such shops often sell prints in the strict sense given by Odysseus (which I would extend to include screen prints). The museum's "prints" will be reproductions of high quality and priced accordingly: its "posters" will be printed on paper of poorer quality, probably using less refined photographic and printing processes. "Prints" are for framing and hanging, "posters" are likely to be pinned or blu-tacked to a wall or board. (How were the Toulouse-Lautrec posters, as pasted up in public, made? I mean, were they, in Odysseus' sense, multiple originals made from T.L's blocks, or commercially mass-produced from his paintings?)
Alan Jones

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[nq:1]Imagine you are standing in art museum store. What's the difference between a print and a poster?[/nq]
I manage many business affairs for the world's most famous art photographer, including his web site.
if anyone's interested.

To me and my team, a Hamilton print is a reproduction by wet photo-chemistry. If signed, it sells for $12,000
A poster is ? or can be ? identical in cursory appearance but was produced by halftone methods on an offset printing press and sells for $175. And is usually larger.
Of course, I'm not suggesting this distinction is universal, only one example.
Indeed, to a painter, a print is not an expensive original at all but a cheap copy of his original art.
So, although Hamilton's $12,000 prints hang in the US Library of Congress, the Guggenheim Museum, the palace of the Danish royal family and so on, chances are they are the only "prints" in there, hanging alongside original works whose creators would shun the word print like the plague.

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