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.

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

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:impasto.

Derived terms

• impastoed

Translations

the use of a thick-bodied paint to create sizable peaks and crests in an image

• Russian: импа́сто (impásto)

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^[1]:

     "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 […] "

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)

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

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

Etymology 3

Verb

impasto

1. first-person singular present indicative of impastare

Anagrams

• imposta