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Painting that applies the pigment thickly so that brush or palette knife marks are visible
Answer for the clue "Painting that applies the pigment thickly so that brush or palette knife marks are visible ", 7 letters:
impasto
Alternative clues for the word impasto
- Heavy-brushstroke technique seen in many van Gogh paintings
- Paint applied thickly
- Spot aim that's developed in painting technique
- Van Gogh's technique in "The Starry Night"
- Ma’s top I replaced, putting on thick coat
- I’ve reached “P for Paint”?
- Painting with pigment laid on thick
- Artistic technique using thick layers of paint
Word definitions for impasto in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Impasto \Im*pas"to\, n. [It. See Impaste .] (Paint.) The thickness of the layer or body of pigment applied by the painter to his canvas with especial reference to the juxtaposition of different colors and tints in forming a harmonious whole. --Fairholt.
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. painting that applies the pigment thickly so that brush or palette knife marks are visible
Usage examples of impasto.
The seething color field in which the street was painted, the impasto from which his features had been carved, and of course that detail Ted had been so proud to point out to Harry in the gallery: the foot, the heel, the snake writhing as it was trodden lifeless.
Behind it, Johnnie Bulb appeared, a shadow, a monochrome, a flat and coloured impasto, and finally the vivid man, standing beside the furnace.
No impasto here: "long" paint, everything put there more than real could ever be.
Above them, the sky was deepening, color impastoed onto the undersides of clouds as the sun swung lower in the sky.