How to Use impasto in a Sentence

impasto

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Some of his creations have the depth of relief sculptures while others look like plasticy impasto paintings.
  — Joseph Flaherty, WIRED, 10 Oct. 2013
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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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