He was thinking, ʽGot to get a subject where a man can weight the impasto in light. Paint thin against light. Got to remember that.ʼ
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Impasto
Synonyms for "impasto" (9 found)
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Related words (4)
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Translations
2 translations across 2 languages.
Polish
1 entries- impast noun (the use of a thick-bodied paint to create sizable peaks and crests in an image)
Russian
1 entries- импа́сто noun (the use of a thick-bodied paint to create sizable peaks and crests in an image)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
[…]all got scumbled together, eventually, by the knives of the seasons, to an impasto, feet thick, of unbelievable black topsoil in which anything could grow, not the least being bananas.
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These dully schematic yet sentimental misfortunes surround Van Gogh's “Sower”. He ploughs on, figure accentuated in deep impasto, across a field cast in blue shadow, chrome yellow corn merging with the sun.
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"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 […]"
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