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Encaustic painting, also known as hot wax painting, involves using heated beeswax to which colored pigments are added. The liquid or paste is then applied to a surface—usually prepared wood, though canvas and other materials are often used. The simplest encaustic mixture can be made from adding pigments to beeswax. The word encaustic originates from the Greek word enkaustikos[2] which means to burn in, and this element of heat is necessary for a painting to be called encaustic. This technique was notably used in the Fayum mummy portraits from Egypt around 100–300 AD, in the Blachernitissa and other early icons, as well as in many works of 20th-century North American artists, including Jasper Johns, Tony Scherman, Mark Perlman, and Fernando Leal Audirac. Kut-kut, a lost art of the Philippines, employs sgraffito and encaustic techniques. It was practiced by the indigenous tribe of Samar island around 1600 to 1800.[3] Artists in the Mexican muralism movement, such as Diego Rivera[4] and Jean Charlot[5] sometimes used encaustic painting. The Belgian artist James Ensor also experimented with encaustic. The wax encaustic painting technique was described by the Roman scholar Pliny the Elder (1885, Book 35, ch 41) in his Natural History from the 1st Century AD. The oldest surviving encaustic panel paintings are the Romano-Egyptian Fayum mummy portraits from the 1st Century BC.(Doxiadis 1995, p. 193) In the 20th century, painter Fritz Faiss (1905–1981), a student of Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky at the Bauhaus, together with Dr. Hans Schmid, rediscovered the so-called "Punic wax" technique of encaustic painting. Faiss held two German patents related to the preparation of waxes for encaustic painting. One covered a method for treating beeswax so that its melting point was raised from 60 to 100 °C (140 to 212 °F). This occurred after boiling the wax in a solution of sea water and soda three successive times. The resulting harder wax is the same as the Punic wax referred to in ancient Greek writings on encaustic painting. Please see more about this ancient technique on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encaustic_painting
Print:Giclee on Canvas
Size:12 W x 16 H x 1.25 D in
Size with Frame:13.75 W x 17.75 H x 1.25 D in
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Ramona Romanu was born 1970. She studied art at the Art School in Arad and with Prof. Earn Collar in Munich. She also took a degree in computer sciences and medicine, specialized in Neuronal Networks and Artificial Intelligence. She lives and works as an artist since 2004 in Munich, Germany. In the figurative painting she focussed on underwater worlds, ladies underwater, fishes, Japanese koi painting and geishas. See more: http://ramoart.de/gallery-view/underwater/ The contemporary abstract artwork of Ramona Romanu emerges art with quantum physics, the intuition with the rational. Her work is inspired by Chaos Theory, recursive mathematical patterns and perception. Since 2018 working with encaustic techniques: https://ramoart.de/gallery-view/enkaustik/ http://ramoart.de/gallery-view/rorschach/ http://ramoart.de/gallery-view/abstract/ http://ramoart.de/gallery-view/new-modern-abstracts/ Main technique is Oil on Canvas, Fluorescence Colors, Encaustics
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