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.
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the use of a thick-bodied paint to create sizable peaks and crests in an image
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Verb
impasto (third-person singular simple present impastoes, present participle impastoing, simple past and past participle impastoed)
- (painting) to paint in thick-bodied paint; to paint in impasto style
- 1991, Joyce Nakamura, Contemporary Authors Autobiographical Series, Volume 14
- "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 […] "
- 1991, Joyce Nakamura, Contemporary Authors Autobiographical Series, Volume 14
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -asto
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