Impasto

Quick meaning: Impasto is a noun meaning (painting) The use of a thick-bodied paint to create peaks and crests that physically extend from the surface of a painting.

Meaning

(painting) The use of a thick-bodied paint to create peaks and crests that physically extend from the surface of a painting.

More Meanings

1. (painting) To paint in thick-bodied paint; to paint in impasto style.

Example Sentences

He was thinking, ʽGot to get a subject where a man can weight the impasto in light. Paint thin against light. Got to remember that.ʼ

"She looked tall to me, and slim, with delicate Semitic features, and a full mouth that she impastoed with red lipstick to play against her […]"

[…]all got scumbled together, eventually, by the knives of the seasons, to an impasto, feet thick, of unbelievable black topsoil in which anything could grow, not the least being bananas.

These dully schematic yet sentimental misfortunes surround Van Gogh's “Sower”. He ploughs on, figure accentuated in deep impasto, across a field cast in blue shadow, chrome yellow corn merging with the sun.

Word Forms

• impastos
• impastoes
• impastoing
• impastoed

Related Words

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