impasto
See also: impastò
English
Noun
impasto (countable and uncountable, plural impastos)
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.
- (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, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1962, OCLC 751607287, 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
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:impasto.
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Derived terms
- impastoed
Translations
the use of a thick-bodied paint to create sizable peaks and crests in an image
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Verb
impasto (third-person singular simple present impastoes, present participle impastoing, simple past and past participle impastoed)
- (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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Anagrams
- ampotis
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /imˈpa.sto/
- Rhymes: -asto
- Hyphenation: im‧pà‧sto
Etymology 1
Deverbal from impastare + -o.
Noun
impasto m (plural impasti)
- mixture, dough, kneading, crumb
- impasto
Related terms
- impastare
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)
- (literary, rare) not having eaten, fasting
Verb
impasto
- first-person singular present indicative of impastare
Anagrams
- imposta