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Thickly-applied painting technique
Answer for the clue "Thickly-applied painting technique ", 7 letters:
impasto
Alternative clues for the word impasto
- Spot aim that's developed in painting technique
- Painting technique used in van Gogh's "The Starry Night"
- Painting that applies the pigment thickly so that brush or palette knife marks are visible
- Heavy-brushstroke technique seen in many van Gogh paintings
- Very thick painter uses this progress report on learning alphabet?
- Thick-laid paint
- Thickly laid paint
Word definitions for impasto in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. In painting, the use of a thick-bodied paint to create sizable peaks and crests in an image.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. painting that applies the pigment thickly so that brush or palette knife marks are visible
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.