impasto

See also: impastò

English

Noun

impasto (plural impastos)

Still Life: Vase with Pink Roses is an oil painting on canvas completed by Vincent van Gogh in 1890, which makes extensive use of the impasto technique.
  1. (painting) The use of a thick-bodied paint to create sizable peaks and crests in an image.

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Translations

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Verb

impasto (third-person singular simple present impastoes, present participle impastoing, simple past and past participle impastoed)

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

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -asto

Noun

impasto m (plural impasti)

  1. mixture, dough, kneading, crumb
  2. impasto

Verb

impasto

  1. first-person singular present of impastare

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