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impasto
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im·pas·to  (m-pst, -päst)
n. pl. im·pas·tos
1. The application of thick layers of pigment to a canvas or other surface in painting.
2. The paint so applied.

[Italian, from impastare, to make into a paste : in-, in (from Latin; see in-2) + pasta, paste (from Late Latin; see paste1).]

impasto [ɪmˈpæstəʊ]
n
1. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) paint applied thickly, so that brush and palette knife marks are evident
2. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) the technique of applying paint in this way
[from Italian, from impastare; see impaste]
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Noun1.impasto - painting that applies the pigment thickly so that brush or palette knife marks are visible
painting - creating a picture with paints; "he studied painting and sculpture for many years"


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In the same room, I admired Andrzej Zielinski's small paintings of mundane objects like laptops, each suspiring an unnamable, "existential" persona, all rendered in the absurdly dense impastos reminiscent of postwar European art informel and tachist artists like Soulages, Mathieu, and Fautrier.
The front room was all yellow--eight serial panels of whorls and sunbursts and two larger canvases featuring thick impastos of lemon-colored paint applied largely by brush, with T-shirts flattened into the goo as if crucified.
 
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