impasto in English

noun
1
the process or technique of laying on paint or pigment thickly so that it stands out from a surface.
In each, he runs a dazzling gamut of painterly techniques: glazing, impasto , scumbling, decalcomania, fluid linear strokes and so on.

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1. 26 For thick, impasto techniques it is preferable to use traditional acrylic paints.

2. An extremely versatile medium, Caseins may be applied in any manner, from impasto to thin watercolor washes

3. 8 This intrusion or invasion into the thick impasto of the declamatory surface is peculiarly poignant and suggestive.

4. 29 This intrusion or invasion into the thick impasto of the declamatory surface is peculiarly poignant and suggestive.

5. Emile Bellet's art is best-known for its saturated, lucid colors and his technique of painting the female form in long strokes using an impasto knife

6. Included in the artist’s debut American solo show at Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, in 1954, Brumaire (1953) is an explosive abstract painting by Jean Paul Riopelle.Bold, radial facets of red, black, white, green and sky-blue impasto are woven into an electrifying mosaic of color and energy, the thick paint shot through with dripped filaments of white flung directly at the canvas.