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Definition of impasto
impastos
1 : the thick application of a pigment to a canvas or panel in painting; also : the body of pigment so applied
2 : raised decoration on ceramic ware usually of slip or enamel
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Her color palette and impasto technique make for deep texture, in some cases with paint an inch thick coming off the canvas.
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The famously grotesque impasto of Jane’s makeup (Davis’s own invention) matches her roaring theatrical flamboyance; Blanche, plainspoken and sculpturally stark, is reduced to muddled deceptions in order to elude Jane’s clutches.
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Todd Bienvenu paints both oil and acrylic in a faux-naïf style of broad approximate strokes, bright high-contrast colors and heavy impasto.
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Some of his creations have the depth of relief sculptures while others look like plasticy impasto paintings.
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Origin and Etymology of impasto
Italian, from impastare
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