impasto

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See also: impastò

English

Still Life: Vase with Pink Roses is an oil painting on canvas completed by Vincent van Gogh in 1890, which makes extensive use of the impasto technique.
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Etymology

Borrowed from Italian impasto.

Noun

impasto (countable and uncountable, plural impastos)

  1. (painting) The use of a thick-bodied paint to create peaks and crests that physically extend from the surface of a painting.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 63:
      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
    • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, 1st US edition, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, part 1: Beyond the Zero, page 5:
      […] 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.

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Verb

impasto (third-person singular simple present impastoes, present participle impastoing, simple past and past participle impastoed)

  1. (painting) To paint in thick-bodied paint; to paint in impasto style.
    • 1991, Joyce Nakamura, Contemporary Authors Autobiographical Series, Volume 14‎:
      "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 […] "

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /imˈpa.sto/
  • Rhymes: -asto
  • Hyphenation: im‧pà‧sto

Etymology 1

Deverbal from impastare +‎ -o.

Noun

impasto m (plural impasti)

  1. mixture, dough, kneading, crumb
  2. impasto

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin impastus, from im- (“not”) + pastus, past participle of pascī (“to eat, to feed”).

Noun

impasto (feminine impasta, masculine plural impasti, feminine plural impaste)

  1. (literary, rare) not having eaten, fasting

Etymology 3

Verb

impasto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of impastare

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