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encaustic

/en-kaw-stik/US // ɛnˈkɔ stɪk //UK // (ɪnˈkɒstɪk) ceramics //

浮雕,凹凸不平,颜料,浮雕艺术

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : painted with wax colors fixed with heat, or with any process in which colors are burned in.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a work of art produced by an encaustic process.

Examples

  • He works in encaustic, a mix of pigment and hot wax that requires a quick hand and whose immediacy has “a sonic quality,” he told a recent visitor to Hemphill Artworks.

  • Pausias was the first to win fame in encaustic painting, although its technical processes had for some time been known.

  • Encaustic Painting, a kind of painting practised by the ancients, for the perfecting of which heating or burning-in was required.

  • Behind the Retablo some of the old pavement remains, of encaustic tiles in blue, white, and red.

  • There is a western gallery, and some seats made of glazed encaustic tiles on each side of the sanctuary.

  • Upon the adhesion to a smoothly-polished limestone, of an encaustic fat which forms the lines or traces.