impasto
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- noun
- /ɪmˈpɑːstoʊ/
- Specialized
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impasto
- To achieve a dramatic flair, the artist applied thick impasto strokes that added depth to the landscape.
- heavy impasto
- thick impasto
What a book, it snarls, the translucence full impasto ahead.
- What a book, it snarls, the translucence full impasto ahead.
Examples
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The portrait is painted with a freedom and a heavy impasto very different from any other of Van Campen's paintings, even those he had done only a few years before, at the Huis ten Bosch.
Academic text (1991) -
You'll discover a variety of color-mixing techniques including palette mixing, impasto, and overlaying.
Blog text (22) -
But the paint is really thick, the impasto is heavy.
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Now he added thick daubs of paint to the front of the panels, sometimes to the sides, using heavy impasto and deliberately crude designs.
Academic text (2001) -
The heavy impasto of the foreground is a deliberate reference to Adolphe Monticelli.
Academic text (1993) -
The most complex of the three canvases in composition and texture, this painting shows grotesque human forms emerging in fields of rich impasto.
Academic text (2004) -
Amorsolo was by this time firmly established as the dominant artist, and his mature confidence is evident in a rapid brush, sharper strokes, and thicker impasto.
Academic text (2015) -
By alternating thickly textured impasto with turpentine-thinned washes, the artist can create opaque areas of positive space and radiant glazes of negative space.
Fiction book (1999) -
Decamps's rich impasto gilded with light was such a signature motif in his Orientalist compositions that it became synonymous with his virtuoso technique and its imitative powers.
Academic text (2004) -
The heavy impasto in her painting creates a three-dimensional texture that enhances the overall effect.
How Thick
Surface Forms
Etymology
Impasto comes from the Italian verb impastare ('to knead') and the noun pasta ('dough' or 'paste'). So an impasto in painting is paint worked like thick 'dough' on the canvas, which gives a rich, textured surface.