impasto
IPA: ɪmpɑstoʊ
noun
- (painting) The use of a thick-bodied paint to create peaks and crests that physically extend from the surface of a painting.
verb
- (painting) To paint in thick-bodied paint; to paint in impasto style.
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Examples of "impasto" in Sentences
- It looks like some kind of impasto.
- He applies the technique of impasto.
- Impasto is a type of coarse Etruscan pottery.
- Heavy build ups can create an almost impasto effect.
- There may exist a connection with Villanovan impasto.
- He began using impasto, mainly applied with a palette knife.
- The woman is painted in thick impasto, and shown in half lenght.
- The heavy impasto is an intriguing contrast to the skeletal figures she paints.
- He painted it in deep impasto—where paint is laid on thickly—and did so repeatedly.
- Seeing him eye a Picasso, Rockefeller took the man's hand and placed it on the impasto.
- I'm showing resin and wax pieces, which are impasto paintings with a gloss of thick resin in between the brush strokes.
- He will learn the secret of that transparency, of that sumptuous richness of impasto, which is in itself a delight to the eye.
- He avoids the gestural brushstroke, impasto—anything, indeed, that might draw attention to the fact that these pictures are paintings.
- In this painting as in most of my oil paintings, I used bold colors and brushstrokes of thick paint called impasto, to create a textural rhythm in order to introduce a more intense feeling in the work.
- Contributions of urban imagery by the likes of George Shaw and Cornelia Parker bring the story up to date, but it's the old hands who make magic out of the mundane, with Frank Auerbach's Euston Steps a coagulated mass of painterly impasto and the local all-time master LS Lowry represented by a gem of a painting, depicting a park surrounded like a cultural oasis by the looming chimneys of factories.