Close Menu
    Facebook X (Twitter) Instagram
    Facebook X (Twitter) Instagram LinkedIn
    SnapMunk
    • Startups
    • Crowdfunding
    • Industry Insights
    • Startup Directory
    • Newsletters
    SnapMunk
    Home»Prateek Jose»Affordable Famous Art With Digital Restoration and Reproduction
    the starry night van gogh snapmunk large
    Prateek Jose

    Affordable Famous Art With Digital Restoration and Reproduction

    Prateek JoseBy Prateek JoseFebruary 24, 2016Updated:January 21, 20176 Comments3 Mins Read
    Share
    Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email

    The thing about “great” art is that it’s almost as hard to acquire as it is to understand. 

    While interpreting art should probably be left to the experts, Holst is a digital art touch-up and reproduction startup that helps you get your hands on renowned paintings at affordable prices. Of course, they don’t sell you the original paintings. Instead, Holst prints digital copies of paintings after putting them through a digital restoration process.

    According to the company,

    “The significant amount of time that has passed from the original creation of many paintings affects their color and brightness. This often makes it difficult to understand what a painting looked like in the moment it was created according to the artist’s vision. Holst’s goal is to use digital technology to repair the defects of age and alter an image’s brightness, contrast, and colors to better reflect the artist’s original creation.” 

    man with a guitarRestoring original paintings is a rather long and arduous process, since renewing the physical aspects of the canvas and paint without adulterating the artist’s vision is a hard balance to achieve. It’s often controversial and sometimes leads to egregious and hilarious blunders as in the case of the octogenarian who took it upon herself to restore a 19th-century fresco. For these reasons, manual restoration can be quite pricey.

    Modern image processing technology eliminates both the time and risk associated with art restoration, which is why Holst uses Photoshop in the LAB color space (as opposed to say  RGB or CMYK) rather than brushes and a color card to restore paintings. The service doesn’t presume to be able to restore paintings with high degrees of historical accuracy; instead, they retouch paintings digitally to ensure that it looks good at the business end of a printer.

    Holst’s current catalog features art by many of history’s most illustrious painters, including da Vinci, van Gogh, Picaso, and Michelangelo. Pigment-based inks are used for the prints and buyers can choose whether to use a paper or canvas substrate. Varnish and texture gel may be applied over the the prints to make them look more like actual paintings and protect them from the elements.

    The pricing of the printed paintings vary depending on the size, material (paper/canvas), and whether you’d like varnish or texture gel to be used. A 29″ × 23″ canvas print of the ‘Bathers at La Grenouillère’ by Monet with a texture gel coating costs $100, so the replicas are certainly a lot more economical than the originals. Shipping to anywhere in the USA is free.

    The team at Holst is currently working on completing retouching processes on the famous pieces that constitute the core of their catalogue. From there, they will move on to paintings featured at the Rijksmuseum, MET, and LACMA. Whether you deem their reproductions cheap imitations or the sincerest form of flattery to the great artists of history, you have to admit having an affordable, high-quality, canvas-backed wall-sized print of ‘The Creation of Adam’ by Michelangelo in your house is a proposition that’s hard to resist.

    Prateek Jose
    • Website

    Related Posts

    Beyond Bonjour: Mastering Languages for a World Without Borders

    March 26, 2024

    Speak Like a Boss: Mastering Languages for Startup Success

    March 26, 2024

    Save Money While Going Green With Arcadia Power

    July 25, 2019

    3 Compelling Reasons Why Your Tech Startup Needs A .TECH Domain

    June 21, 2019
    TOP POSTS

    Beyond Bonjour: Mastering Languages for a World Without Borders

    March 26, 2024

    Speak Like a Boss: Mastering Languages for Startup Success

    March 26, 2024

    Save Money While Going Green With Arcadia Power

    July 25, 2019

    3 Compelling Reasons Why Your Tech Startup Needs A .TECH Domain

    June 21, 2019

    Subscribe to Updates

    Get the latest creative news from FooBar about art, design and business.

    SnapMunk is dedicated to providing readers with all things interesting, exciting and entertaining in the world of tech news, startup companies and startup culture.

    We're social. Connect with us:

    Facebook X (Twitter) Instagram LinkedIn
    TOP INSIGHTS

    Beyond Bonjour: Mastering Languages for a World Without Borders

    March 26, 2024

    Speak Like a Boss: Mastering Languages for Startup Success

    March 26, 2024

    Save Money While Going Green With Arcadia Power

    July 25, 2019
    GET INFORMED

    Subscribe to Updates

    Get the latest creative news from FooBar about art, design and business.

    Facebook X (Twitter) LinkedIn Instagram
    • Home
    • Startups
    • Crowdfunding
    • Industry Insights
    • Startup Directory
    © 2025 SnapMunk. Designed by SnapMunk.

    Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.