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Spot aim that's developed in painting technique
Answer for the clue "Spot aim that's developed in painting technique ", 7 letters:
impasto
Alternative clues for the word impasto
- What batsman off the mark might say is an art form
- Technique involving thickly applied paint
- Heavy-brushstroke technique seen in many van Gogh paintings
- Terror regarding painting technique
- Artistic technique using thick layers of paint
- Painting that applies the pigment thickly so that brush or palette knife marks are visible
- Painting with pigment laid on thick
- Paint applied thickly
- Painting technique used in van Gogh's "The Starry Night"
Word definitions for impasto in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
laying on of colors thickly," 1784, from Italian impasto , noun of action from impastare "to raise paste; to put in paste," from assimilated form of in- "into, in" (see in- (2)) + pasta "paste" (see pasta ).
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.