From beehive to hotplate to the artist's hand, encaustic has
evolved as a versatile medium applied to almost every artistic
style. A long-overdue look at a newly popular art form, this book
explores 79 North American artists' feelings about their work in
encaustic and how they use it to express their inner worlds and the
world around them. Eight chapters organize the artists by
geographical region and focus on how the heated beeswax and resin
material is used to create seductive, skin-like surfaces and rich,
layered membranes. More than 2,000 years old, this
cross-disciplinary medium ranges from painting to sculpture,
assemblage, collage, and printmaking and encourages risk-taking in
a way that other materials do not. Its inherent contradictions--it
can be hot or cold, malleable or solid, opaque or translucent,
layered or thin, permanent or fragile--make it all the more
fascinating.
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Sat, 15 Oct 2022 | Review
by: Judy L.
From honeycomb to hot plates this is the perfect coffee table book on encaustic paintings. It contains the work of 79 artists from North America, which is the seat of modern day encaustic art. It shows several artworks from each artist who all supply information and provide inspiration. The only criticism is the high price of the book, and I’m not sure if it equates to value for money.
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