Encaustic painting

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As the term's etymology suggests, the ever-innovative ancient Greeks invented it in their glory days around the 4th century B.C.

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Encaustic Painting
An ancient technique, in which pigments are mixed with molten wax and painted onto a surface to which they are fused by the application of heat.

Encaustic painting: Painting where pigments are mixed with wax and applied to a surface (such as a wall) to which they are firmly stuck by heating with irons; they can then be polished.

Encaustic painting, also known as hot wax painting, involves using heated beeswax to which colored pigments are added. The liquid/paste is then applied to a surface-usually prepared wood, though canvas and other materials are often used.

In the history of mural painting many techniques have been used: encaustic painting, tempera painting, fresco painting, ceramics, oil paint on canvas, and, more recently, liquid silicate and fired procelain enamel.

"In the latter part of the retrospective Varnedoe confronted the visitor with a wall bearing a juxtaposition of two 1982 encaustic paintings, one of upright, one of landscape format, ...

Wax from honeycombs, used as a medium in modeling, in encaustic painting, in wax varnishes, in etching grounds, as a resist in batik, and other techniques and media.
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See also: Encaustic, Painting, Tempera, Expression, Movement