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impasto

In painting, surface texture achieved by a combination of thickly applied paint (usually oil) and bold work with a brush or palette knife. Van Gogh was a master of impasto.



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In the same room, I admired Andrzej Zielinski's small paintings of mundane objects like laptops, each suspiring an unnamable, "existential" persona, all rendered in the absurdly dense impastos reminiscent of postwar European art informel and tachist artists like Soulages, Mathieu, and Fautrier.
The front room was all yellow--eight serial panels of whorls and sunbursts and two larger canvases featuring thick impastos of lemon-colored paint applied largely by brush, with T-shirts flattened into the goo as if crucified.
 
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