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Vinony

impasto

noun

  1. painting technique
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Italian impastobor. English impasto Borrowed from Italian impasto.

  1. The use of a thick-bodied paint to create peaks and crests that physically extend from the surface of a painting.

    “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”

    “[…]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.”

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree Italian impastobor. English impasto Borrowed from Italian impasto.

  1. To paint in thick-bodied paint; to paint in impasto style.

    “"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 […]"”