impasto

See also: impastò

English

Noun

impasto (plural impastos)

Still Life: Vase with Pink Roses is an oil painting on canvas completed by Vincent van Gogh in 1890, which makes extensive use of the impasto technique.

1. (painting) The use of a thick-bodied paint to create sizable peaks and crests in an image.

Derived terms

• impastoed

Translations

the use of a thick-bodied paint to create sizable peaks and crests in an image

• Russian: импа́сто (impásto)
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• For quotations using this term, see Citations:impasto.

Verb

impasto (third-person singular simple present impastoes, present participle impastoing, simple past and past participle impastoed)

1. (painting) to paint in thick-bodied paint; to paint in impasto style
   • 1991, Joyce Nakamura, Contemporary Authors Autobiographical Series, Volume 14

     "She looked tall to me, and slim, with delicate Semitic features, and a full mouth that she impastoed with red lipstick to play against her […] "

Anagrams

• ampotis

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -asto

Noun

impasto m (plural impasti)

1. mixture, dough, kneading, crumb
2. impasto

Related terms

• impastare

Verb

impasto

1. first-person singular present of impastare

Anagrams

• imposta