Glossary
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AI-assisted art
Artwork in which an artist uses an AI system as one tool within a human-directed creative process.
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Archival pigment print
A fine-art print made with pigment-based inks and paper selected for long-term stability.
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Artist proof
A print reserved outside the numbered edition for the artist, publisher, or production review.
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Artwork collection
A group of works connected by a real artistic idea, method, subject, or period.
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Certificate of authenticity
A document connecting a physical or digital work to its artist, title, identifier, medium, edition, and issuer.
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Creation Notes
Artist-written notes explaining the intent, decisions, problems, and context behind a work.
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Creative direction
The human decisions that establish intent, composition, tone, constraints, selection, and the final standard for a work.
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Digital provenance
The documented history connecting a digital work to its creator, source files, identifiers, production events, editions, and ownership records.
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Edition
A declared group of prints or objects produced from one artwork under defined production terms.
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Human-guided AI art
Artwork in which a person directs, evaluates, selects, rejects, revises, and takes responsibility for work made with an AI system.
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Image source
The file, photograph, scan, sketch, generated image, texture, or other material from which a work developed.
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Intermediate state
A saved version showing a work between its initial source and final form.
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Master Edition
A premium collector edition that pairs the physical work with expanded edition, provenance, and process documentation.
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Medium
The material or technical means used to create or produce an artwork.
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Provenance of Thoughtâ„¢
A record of the human intention, direction, selection, rejection, revision, and final decisions behind an artwork.
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Provenance
The documented history of an artwork, commonly including creation, ownership, exhibition, publication, and sale.
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Visual artwork
A creative work primarily experienced through sight, including physical, digital, photographic, and hybrid forms.