How to Use impasto in a Sentence
impasto
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Here are paintings, heavy on the impasto, that are intended to calm the soul, soothe the mind, that would look good hanging above the I.T. guy’s couch.
—Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, The New Yorker, 24 May 2021
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In each frame, the team of artists mimicked the thick layers of oil paint that Vincent mixed on his canvases with his palette knife and hands through a technique called impasto.
—Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian, 20 Feb. 2018
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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.
—NOLA.com, 8 July 2017
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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.
—New York Times, 13 Apr. 2017
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Each artist’s work employs the impasto technique, in which paint straight from the tube, by paint stick, or by finger is applied, slathered, or encrusted in a technique that makes the application process part of the art.
—Nancy Shohet West, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2018
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Some of his creations have the depth of relief sculptures while others look like plasticy impasto paintings.
—Joseph Flaherty, WIRED, 10 Oct. 2013
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In addition to heavy impasto, Aguirre further thickened the surface of the painting by applying scrapings of paint from his palette that curl like flower petals or snippets of ribbons.
—Steven Litt, cleveland, 18 Apr. 2021
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Jaeger-LeCoultre’s master painter faithfully reproduced the artist’s strong sense of perspective, signature brush stroke and heavy impasto, a technique that uses thick layers of paint that raise above the canvas.
—Carol Besler, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2021
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The scientists discovered the presence of a mineral called plumbonacrite in the impasto layer—an uncommon element in paints from that period.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Dec. 2020
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What Hicks’s images convey is the impasto layering of changing generational taste that makes this house, like so many other storied British homes, a place of such endless delight and discovery.
—Noor Brara, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2018
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The greatness of Kossoff’s work is revealed in how his images emerge from the impasto – the accumulations of thick layers of paint — forcing the viewer to negotiate and cycle back and forth between the image depicted and the paint itself.
—Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
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Art brut was a source of inspiration for the painter and sculptor Jean Dubuffet’s own work, which ranged from primitive-looking drawings scratched into impasto to a totemic figure composed only of two unmodified grapevine roots and a block of slag.
—Nicole Rudick, The New York Review of Books, 7 Nov. 2018
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This material obliged a 1920s avant-garde aesthetic — angular, abstract forms, a simple palette, no fancy flashes like impasto, and simple subject matter.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 14 Dec. 2019
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Beyond explanation is the art itself. Animating Van Gogh’s bold impasto, already kinetic on the canvas, could have been merely superfluous.
—Sheri Linden, latimes.com, 28 Sep. 2017
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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.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 May 2017
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