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Artwork details
- Medium : Wax on Linen
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 43.3x47.2in
About this artwork
This table is painted with encaustic. Encaustic is a painting technique practically forgotten for two thousand years. Colors consisting of pigments dissolved in beeswax mixed with turpentine and Dammar resin are used hot. They are distinguished by their exceptional durability, far superior to that of oil colors (see the portraits of Fayum dating from the beginning of the Christian era). The way of working of the painter of Antiquity being little…
known Igor Bitman in a way reinvented this technique to adapt it to the application on canvas.
Igor Bitman
France
Credentials
- International Exposure
- Works on commission
« My paintings are often conversations that I have with painters from the more to less recent past. »
Igor Bitman, a painter and photographer who resides in France, has exhibited nationally, as well as in Switzerland, Canada, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and China. The main theme in his works is beauty and ‘seizing beauty that goes away’. For this reason, Bitman’s paintings and photographs highlight the beauty of the feminine form. His favorite techniques include traditional oil, oil pastel and encaustic painting with beeswax.