Sentences with phrase «wax encaustic techniques»

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

According to Long - Postal, the wax encaustic technique allows her to explore her paintings in a more tactile way by selectively scraping, incising, and scarring, which brings to the works elements that are both solid and transparent.

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Subsequently, this inspired him to create The Flag, a painting in encaustic — this classical technique has its roots in ancient Egypt and it is based on mixing pigments with melted wax.

Working with his familiar vocabulary of collaged images combined with unexpected surfaces and found objects, the artist developed a technique for applying a silkscreened encaustic image to the polished metal surfaces of these works by forcing hot, brightly colored wax through a metal screen.

Four of the paintings in the show are encaustic on newspaper; Johns revives the ancient technique of wax - painting in a way that again calls attention to the surface, which is both veined and suave, almost like skin over membrane, rather than harsh and rough like the surfaces of the abstract expressionists (or for that matter, Rauschenberg's surfaces).

Mixing pigment into wax — an encaustic technique traced to ancient Egypt, though rarely employed in contemporary art — creates a lumpy, optically veiled surface.

For over 20 years I have focused solely in working in this ancient technique of wax encaustic where elements are combines with heat as the active solvent.

She works with the ancient technique of encaustic wax, a combination of beeswax, resin and pigments in which heat serves as the active solvent.

Johns was interested in technique, and used encaustic wax to create his 1954 Flag painting.

Encaustic, a method reaching back to ancient times, is by definition a technique consisting of layers of wax fused together with heat.

Royal Academician Terry Setch has been painting in encaustic for 40 years, and here he demonstrates some of the wax - wrangling techniques he uses to create his multi-layered and richly textured paintings.

The style two photos above is paired with an encaustic painting, which is a technique of applying paint mixed with wax on canvas or art board.