encaustic
/ɛnˈkɔːstɪk
/adjective
(In painting and ceramics) decorated by burning in colours as an inlay, especially using coloured clays or pigments mixed with hot wax.Scherman started painting with wax in 1974, when, as a student at the Royal College of Art in London, he first saw Jasper Johns's encaustic paintings....
- Above this ensemble, on the wall against which it is set, hangs a grid of 25 square encaustic paintings, monochrome abstractions that evoke the night sky.
- Perceptually tricky yet highly engaging, Channel 11 is an encaustic painting on wood with a gridded picture plane of equally sized beige, brown and blue squares.
noun [mass noun]
The art or process of encaustic painting.In this show, which featured a range of traditional mediums (oil, watercolor, acrylic or encaustic on canvas, linen or paper), the surfaces are gridded into small squares, and a linear configuration fills each box....
- Although some mummy portraits were done with tempera, encaustic was particularly suited for the realistic representation of human skin because of the medium's thicker texture and luminosity.
- The artists used both tempera and encaustic, a wax-based medium.
Origin
Late 16th century: via Latin from Greek enkaustikos, from enkaiein 'burn in', from en- 'in' + kaiein 'to burn'.