Glossary

A

  • AI-assisted art

    Artwork in which an artist uses an AI system as one tool within a human-directed creative process.

  • Archival pigment print

    A fine-art print made with pigment-based inks and paper selected for long-term stability.

  • Artist proof

    A print reserved outside the numbered edition for the artist, publisher, or production review.

  • Artwork collection

    A group of works connected by a real artistic idea, method, subject, or period.

C

  • Certificate of authenticity

    A document connecting a physical or digital work to its artist, title, identifier, medium, edition, and issuer.

  • Creation Notes

    Artist-written notes explaining the intent, decisions, problems, and context behind a work.

  • Creative direction

    The human decisions that establish intent, composition, tone, constraints, selection, and the final standard for a work.

D

  • Digital provenance

    The documented history connecting a digital work to its creator, source files, identifiers, production events, editions, and ownership records.

E

  • Edition

    A declared group of prints or objects produced from one artwork under defined production terms.

H

  • Human-guided AI art

    Artwork in which a person directs, evaluates, selects, rejects, revises, and takes responsibility for work made with an AI system.

I

  • Image source

    The file, photograph, scan, sketch, generated image, texture, or other material from which a work developed.

  • Intermediate state

    A saved version showing a work between its initial source and final form.

M

  • Master Edition

    A premium collector edition that pairs the physical work with expanded edition, provenance, and process documentation.

  • Medium

    The material or technical means used to create or produce an artwork.

P

  • Provenance of Thoughtâ„¢

    A record of the human intention, direction, selection, rejection, revision, and final decisions behind an artwork.

  • Provenance

    The documented history of an artwork, commonly including creation, ownership, exhibition, publication, and sale.

V

  • Visual artwork

    A creative work primarily experienced through sight, including physical, digital, photographic, and hybrid forms.