ENCAUSTIC

painting medium in which the binder for the pigment is wax or wax and resin. Examples of encaustic tomb portraits from Roman Egypt bear witness to the durability of the medium, which is thought to have been widely used in ancient times. Pliny describes the process in which hot liquid colors were applied to the wall by means of heated irons. The technique was briefly revived in the 19th cent. and is now used by a number of contemporary artists.

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books on: Encaustic  - 246 results

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The Landscape of Industry: Patterns of Change in the Ironbridge Gorge
Book by Judith Alfrey, Catherine Clark; Routledge, 1993
Subjects: Industrial Archaeology--England--Ironbridge (Shropshire), Mines And Mineral Resources--England--Ironbridge (Shropshire)--History
...which closed by the time of the First World War. Encaustic tiles The encaustic tile manufactories of Craven Dunnill and Maws were...these specially designed factories were built, encaustic tile manufacture had become a highly complex works...
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Companion to Roman History
Book by H. Stuart Jones; Clarendon Press, 1912
Subjects: Architecture--Rome--History, Art--Rome--History, Rome, Rome--Civilization
...yolk of egg mixed with fig-sap, or in encaustic. This lost technique, which may be...impression of the technical qualities of encaustic. These are the coffin- portraits discovered...which must be identified with the ancient encaustic, described by Pliny H. N. xxxv. 149...
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The Complete Book of Artists' Techniques
Book by Kurt Herberts; Frederick A. Praeger, 1958
Subjects: Art--Technique, Painting--Technique
...a soft cloth. Modern attempts to use encaustic have been much simplified by a scientific...liquefied and inusted electrically. Encaustic has two outstanding properties, an unusual...handed down to us through the centuries. Encaustic colours never yellow, darken or crack...
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The New York School: The Painters and Sculptors of the Fifties
Book by Irving Sandler; Harper & Row, 1978
Subjects: Art, American--New York (State)--20th Century, New York School Of Art
...Johns, Target with Four Faces, 1955. Encaustic on newspaper over canvas, 26" x 26...137. Jasper Johns, Flag, 1958. Encaustic and collage on canvas, 42" x 60...Jasper Johns, Numbers in Color, 1959. Encaustic and collage on canvas, 661/2" x 491...
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On Modern American Art: Selected Essays
Book by Robert Rosenblum; Harry N. Abrams Publishers, 1999
Subjects: Art, American, Art, Modern--20th Century--United States
...Target with Plaster Casts, 1955. Encaustic and collage on canvas, with objects...13. Jasper Johns, Tennyson, 1958. Encaustic and canvas collage on canvas, 731...Y. 14. Jasper Johns, Book, 1957. Encaustic on book and wood, 10 x 13 in. 25...
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journal articles on: Encaustic  - 19 results

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Leonardo's Battle of Anghiari: a Study in the Exchange between Theory and Practice
Journal article by Claire J. Farago; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 76, 1994
Subjects: Art criticism, Art history, Color, Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519), Visual artists
...27), the most celebrated encaustic painter of Greek antiquity...representation of relief.(64) Encaustic would also have been the medium...signs of fracture. A type of encaustic technique still practiced...he intended to use oils, encaustics, or some other medium. Yet...
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The Painter's Secret: Invention and Rivalry from Vasari to Balzac
Journal article by Marc Gotlieb; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 84, 2002
Subjects: Art, Art criticism, Art history
...techniques, including, for example, encaustic, a wax-based painting medium described...coauthored a pamphlet on the "secret" of encaustic painting, apparently in an effort to...Montabert provided a lengthy account of encaustic methods, and by the 1830s enough progress...
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Gallery Chronicle
Journal article by Karen Wilkin; The Hudson Review, Vol. 58, 2005
Subjects: Dali, Salvador, Ernst, Max, Museum exhibits, Painting, Visual artists
...excruciatingly delicate lines and dense layers in encaustic and resin. Some paintings from early...the structure of her luscious planes of encaustic seems to fulfill (in nonliteral ways...Goldslegers combination of sensuous encaustic and austere color-a severely restricted...
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Charlotte Ka
Journal article by Cora Marshall; Nka : Journal of Contemporary African Art, 1999
Subjects: Art exhibits, Ka, Charlotte, Painting, Video recordings, Visual artists
...like arrangement. Charred wood, power objects, small encaustic paintings, dried flowers, delicate figurines, miniature...they reflect my search for universal truth and beauty. The encaustic wax paintings illuminate, through color and brilliance...
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The Performative Icon
Journal article by Bissera V. Pentcheva; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 88, 2006
Subjects: Light, Materiality, Scholarships & fellowships, Theory
...time on the material surface (bronze or gold, marble or encaustic). The making of the icon becomes a process of double imprint...materialization of the typos. Nor could tempera compare to encaustic, a form of relief that imparts a vivid sensation of imprint...
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magazine articles on: Encaustic  - 63 results

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Encaustic Still Life
Magazine article by Len Mathes; Arts & Activities, Vol. 131, April 2002
Subjects: Art--Study and teaching, Encaustic painting--Study and teaching, Teaching--Technique
Encaustic still life by Len Mathes Encaustic painting--painting with melted wax that has been mixed with...between van Goghs painting style/brushwork and the look of encaustic painting. We then practiced our encaustic medium of choice...
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ENCAUSTIC LETTERS & NUMBERS Middle School
Magazine article by Dianne Turner; School Arts, Vol. 101, September 2001
Subjects: Artists--Technique, Encaustic painting--Technique, Johns, Jasper--Technique
ENCAUSTIC LETTERS NUMBERS Middle School by Dianne...learn about the ancient technique of encaustic painting. Materials To complete this...artworks by Jasper Johns, including his encaustic series of alphabets and numbers (Grey...
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According to What: With America at War and Midterm Elections at Hand, Art Historian Anne M. Wagner Reframes Jasper Johns's Flag, 1954-55
Magazine article by Anne M. Wagner; Artforum International, Vol. 45, November 2006
Subjects: Elections, Historians, Johns, Jasper
...Flag Above White with Collage. Here encaustic again transforms snippets of newsprint...the others in the series, it too is encaustic and collage. The resemblance, however...description of the work to be changed from "encaustic on newsprint on canvas" to "encaustic...
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Split Decisions: Jasper Johns in Retrospect
Magazine article by Rosalind E. Krauss, Christopher Knight; Artforum International, Vol. 35, September 1996
Subjects: Johns, Jasper--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Painters--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...in the slowly built-up collage and encaustic surface of the very first Flag, 1954...reconfigure the shallow build-up of encaustic of his earliest surfaces, or the smeared...Flag and the first showing of the famous encaustic collage, in a group exhibition at Castelli...
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Best of the West: Southwest
Magazine article; Southwest Art, Vol. 40, November 2010
Subjects: Art exhibits, Awards & honors, Painting, Visual artists
...irpaintersnm.org. ARIZONA The Art of Encaustic Bringing a modern touch to an ancient...of choice is the hot-wax process of encaustic painting, a technique dating from Roman...into a surface with a natural luster. Encaustic has extended my own vision to the point...
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newspaper articles on: Encaustic  - 68 results

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Knack for an Ancient Art Artistic Late Bloomer Pursues Primitive Medium with a Passion
Newspaper article by Eileen O. Daday; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September 26, 2005
...chosen to specialize in an ancient art, "encaustic," that dates back as far as the 1st...Hawthorn Woods. His first show featuring 15 encaustic pieces opened Friday at Gallery 500...different from a normal abstract painting." Encaustic is a process of painting with molten...
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Art Notes
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), February 24, 2011
...March 16. Artist to demonstrate encaustic techniques COOS BAY - Artist Janne...will give a free demonstration of encaustic printmaking at 11 a.m. today...Public Library, 525 Anderson Ave. Encaustic is an ancient painting process...
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Art Notes
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), December 31, 2009
Subjects: Art exhibitions, Art--Exhibitions, Artists, Painting, Painting (Art)
...Notes. Byline: The Register-Guard Encaustic paintings inspired by Egypt SPRINGFIELD - An exhibit of encaustic paintings by Jean Denis, opens Tuesday...death. Denis uses the same process of encaustic painting that the original artists used...
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Icon Immersion; Greek Church Shows Orthodox Exhibit
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 9, 2002
Subjects: Orthodox Eastern Church
...icons - including "St. Peter," "Encaustic Christ" and "St. Catherine" - will...tempera, mosaic, egg-oil emulsion, wax encaustic and precious metals. He was trained...the wooden panels. He also uses the encaustic method, in which pigments are mixed...
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Why We Should Get Fired Up about Tile Production; LOCAL HISTORY the Midlands Was an Important Centre for the Production of Beautiful Tiles, Says CHRIS UPTON
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), January 19, 2008
...Minton acquired the patent for socalled "encaustic" tiles in 1835 and shared it with Walter...Mintons in the range and reach of their encaustic tiles. The cathedrals Minton missed...just yards from the equally impressive encaustic tile-works of Craven Dunnill, designed...
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encyclopedia articles on: Encaustic  - 7 results

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Encaustic
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ENCAUSTIC painting medium in which the binder for the pigment is wax or wax and resin. Examples of encaustic tomb portraits from Roman Egypt bear witness to the durability of the medium, which is thought to have been widely used in ancient times...
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Painting
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Renaissance art and architecture ; techniques, e.g., encaustic . Materials and Techniques Painters use a number of materials...fresco , watercolor , oil, distemper, gouache, tempera , and encaustic . In addition to these, painting properly embraces many other...
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Roman Art
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...painting has perished. What remains suggests that the art was conceived principally as one of interior decoration. Aside from encaustic portraits chiefly of Alexandrian origin, the largest single group of Roman paintings is from Pompeii, although parallel...
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Pausias
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...s, fl. 1st half of 4th cent. b.c., Greek painter. He was celebrated for his decorative paintings, particularly in encaustic , a method which he is said to have invented. His most famous single work, A Sacrifice, containing an admirably foreshortened...
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Byzantine Art and Architecture
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...panels, since the cult of icons played a leading part in both religious and secular life. Icon painting usually employed the encaustic technique. Little scope was afforded individuality; the effectiveness of the religious image as a vehicle of divine presence...
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