impacts
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She thinned down her medium—until then, she had been using a lot of oil paint, building it up in impastos so thick they were almost sculptural.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 3, 2017
The highest price paid for a Thiebaud that evening, $4 million, went to another realistic picture, a 1961 still life of “Pies” done in thick impastos.
From New York Times • May 13, 2011
Painted in thick impastos, the small panel sold for £2,160, about $3,400, to a telephone bidder who may know the answer to the conundrum.
From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2011
Frank Auerbach, with his inches-thick impastos, and Howard Hodgkin, with his chunky, reclaimed wooden supports, could easily have been co-opted into the RA show.
From The Guardian • Jan. 15, 2011
His paintings are great impastos of pigment: chrome yellow, Prussian blue, vermilion, carmine, very light cinnabar green, emerald green, Veronese green, orange, lemon chrome yellow, geranium lake, silver white, zinc white....
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
