Sentences with phrase «encaustic paint as»

R&F's Founder Richard Frumess began making encaustic paint as a painter simply to support his own artistic practice and to ensure that ready - made encaustic was kept in production at a time when there were no commercial manufacturers.

During the first year Richard produced encaustic paint as R&F Encaustics.

This recent body of work encompasses both large oil and small encaustic paintings as well as a group of more that fifty portrait drawings - some started years earlier and many drawn within the last five years.

Not exact matches

Here were these irregular grids, beautiful browns as sensuous as the encaustic paintings with these inscriptions, which were to me, very much about the body, about one's reach; whereas the others deny you any access to making, except for the band or the spatula mark.

She used impasto and wax encaustic techniques, and at times would paint using her hands, as did early Native American artists.

I combine these elements, using collage and assemblage techniques, often integrating encaustic into the work as either a paint or an adhesive.

The display is arranged thematically, to show the full range of Johns» materials, motifs and techniques including his unique use of encaustic and collage in paintings, as well as the innovations he has achieved in sculpture and the graphic arts by expanding the possibilities of traditional media.

Encaustic as a form of painting has been around for thousands of years, dating back to the 4th Century BC.

Armstrong has produced a series of figurative encaustic and oil paintings, as well as a series of encaustic sculptures.

(born 1938, Bronxville, New York, USA) in his earliest mature works explored a reductive strategy which seemed similar to that of Jasper Johns's and Ellsworth Kelly's contemporaneous works, yet more formalist: paintings such as Return 1 consist of subtly grey fields painted in encaustic (wax - medium) with a narrow strip along the bottom of the canvas where Marden left bare evidence of process (i.e., drips and spatters of paint).

As a general guideline, grounds for encaustic painting must be absorbent, so acrylic gessoes are not recommended.

In Boghiguian's work, the palimpsest of memory takes physical form as a rough accumulation that thickens the surface of her paintings with encaustic, pigment, salt, collage and non-specic debris.

Abstract, encaustic painting on wood panel in white floater frame 12 x 12 x 2.5 inches framed James O'Shea has been praised for years for his work as a colorist, producing layer upo...

Abstract encaustic painting on panel of beige spurge leaves in a decorative arrangement on white 14 x 14 inches This modern abstract encaustic painting by Allyson Levy is made with as...

Hyon Gyon's paintings and sculptures teem with a raw and fervent energy, as she incorporates materials such as melted fabric, gold leaf, encaustic, spray paint, hair and found objects into her work.

It was only later that I became sufficiently attuned to painting as a medium to recognise fully the richness and complexity of facture alone of the encaustic works.

Inspired by the Sumi brush paintings of Zen masters, this recent body of 2 dimensional encaustic works are an attempt to capture movement: fluid, gestural, spontaneous, whole body movement, as in a dance.

His use of encaustic, with its physicality, impasto and transparencies, allows him to create figurative works in which the gesture, the actual act of painting, is just as important and meaningful as the depicted subject.

Born in Ecuador to Chinese parents, Cecile Chong portrays cross-cultural narratives using encaustic and mixed media with imagery appropriated from international sources, such as European children's books and Chinese scroll painting.

Combining the immediacy of the monotype with the richness and luminosity of encaustic painting, the multiple steps of encaustic painting are eliminated, as are the toxicity of solvents used in traditional printmaking.

These paintings, and your paintings in general, as I understand it, are principally done in encaustic.

Encaustic painting, also known as hot - wax painting, involves using heated beeswax to which colored pigments are added.

Johns» treatment of the surface is often lush and painterly; he is famous for incorporating such media as encaustic and plaster relief in his paintings.

This color is itself cut with beeswax, at a low enough level not to conjure up associations with well known purveyors of the encaustic technique, like Jasper Johns and Brice Marden; it instead increases the sensation of the paint as dense and saturated, and gives it a subtle, changing play of light over the surface as the viewer moves around the work.

Some critics, particularly those preoccupied with terminal progress, narrow the view further and describe his brushstrokes of hardened encaustic as the bridge between Abstract Expressionism's volatile brushwork and Andy Warhol's use of mechanical reproduction, the latter cited by many experts as signaling the death of painting.

The effect, in his monochromatic works of this type, is reminiscent of that of Jasper Johns's encaustic White Flag, 1955, and the younger artist's paintings have been read as an inhabitation of modernist forms with monotonous task - based operations that bespeak Binion's personal history of manual labor.

Using various techniques, such as encaustic painting and by implementing materials such scraps of newspaper and other objects he found, the artist creates collages on his canvases before applying paint.

Adams works on panel and paper, using a mixture of paint, encaustic and graphite as well as elements of monotype and collage.

Yet there are as many meanings to be found in a Johns painting as there are layers of encaustic: Painting with Two Balls could also be interpreted as grappling with the macho enterprise of Abstract Exprespainting as there are layers of encaustic: Painting with Two Balls could also be interpreted as grappling with the macho enterprise of Abstract ExpresPainting with Two Balls could also be interpreted as grappling with the macho enterprise of Abstract Expressionism.