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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
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the technique of applying paint thickly, so that brush marks are evident [Italian]
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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.
"Greater New York 2005": P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center by Rimanelli, David / Artforum International
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.
Hermann Nitsch: Mike Weiss Gallery by Raymond, Jonathan / Artforum International
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