Avoiding the popular "Wolfe collection," whose anecdotic canvases filled one of the main galleries of the queer wilderness of cast-iron and
encaustic tiles known as the Metropolitan Museum, they had wandered down a passage to the room where the "Cesnola antiquities" mouldered in unvisited loneliness.
They explore his way of working and learn about the ancient technique of
encaustic painting.
The hall is justifiably proud of the Great Hall (the world's biggest barrel vaulted ceiling when built), the 7,737 piped Willis organ (the world's biggest organ when built), and the best example of an
encaustic tiled Minton floor in the world, all encased in the world's first commercially air conditioned building.
Wax or the
encaustic technique is one of the few activities not contained in the book.
The Cape Cod Museum of Art will host "Swept Away: Translucence, Transparence, Transcendence in Contemporary
Encaustic" beginning May 18, focusing on the medium that uses finely ground pigments suspended in beeswax.
She will give a demonstration on using
encaustic medium from 6 p.m.
HUDDERSFIELD Art Society has again mounted an excellent annual exhibition at Huddersfield Art Gallery, with a wide variety of subject matter and media - this time including works in photoshop and
encaustic wax.
My quasi detachment from these reliefs--they are much more reliefs than sculpture--is heightened by the memory of the blinding enthusiasm that greeted the original
encaustic flags, targets, gridded numbers, and alphabets that, at midcentury, established the territory this new work still mines.
The replacement of the floor comprised in total more than 700 square metres of hand-made
encaustic floor tiles.
The William & Joseph Gallery featured Richard Potter and his contemporary
encaustics on panel in a one-man exhibition titled "The Evolution of the Vessel." Pieces included in the exhibition focused on mixed-media creations of
encaustic, gauze, fabrics and plaster on panel and explored the concept of the vessel.
"They were
encaustic tiles, which meant the clay itself was coloured, as opposed to a colour being fired on to the surface.
Limited excavations carried out in the early 1900s revealed finds of international importance including
encaustic floor tiles, which are kept at the British Museum.