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impasto (ĭmpăs`tō, –pä`stō), thickly applied paint that projects from the picture surface. Such works as Childe Hassam's Allies Day (1917; National Gall. of Art, Washington, D.C.) and Hans Hoffman's abstraction In Upper Regions (1963; David N. Marks Coll.) exploit to advantage the vigorous effect inherent in impasto technique. impasto 1. paint applied thickly, so that brush and palette knife marks are evident 2. the technique of applying paint in this way impasto [im′pä·stō] (graphic arts) The thick, heavy application of oil paint to a canvas, often with a palette knife; impasto sections stand out in considerable relief. The thick application of polymer or other paint to any surface. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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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