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wax painting

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wax painting: see encaustic encaustic, painting medium in which the binder for the pigment is wax or wax and resin. Examples of encaustic tomb portraits from Roman Egypt bear witness to the durability of the medium, which is thought to have been widely used in ancient times.
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They had parallel lives, happening simultaneously, so I showed four plate paintings and one double-panel wax painting.
Two other paintings in the exhibition, one a forest scene, the other a kind of closeup or detail of it, use oil on canvas as if to contradict the accumulated effects of the wax paintings.
 
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