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Tom Thewes takes his cues from the romantic masters of artistic dissension of the early Twentieth Century, a time when the greatest creative minds of the era banded together and splinted apart again and again in an attempt to break ties with the perceived nostalgic aesthetics of the past and constantly re-define the very nature of art. Like the early Twentieth Century painters who inform his style, Tom bridges the art/life divide by creating still images that are anything but still. Painted facets and planes – the visual equivalents of tectonic plates – shift and collide, capturing the dynamic forces of the real world. Giclée (pronounced "zhee-clay") is a neologism for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word "giclée" is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray". It was coined in 1991 by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs" from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints.