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Word entry · 7 letters

impasto

Best crossword clue

"Thick paint application"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPart of speech nounSorted aimopstStarts with IEnds with O1 clues
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Definitions

  1. painting that applies the pigment thickly so that brush or palette knife marks are visible

Word origin

Borrowed from Italian impasto.

Used in a sentence

  • 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
  • […]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.
  • These dully schematic yet sentimental misfortunes surround Van Gogh's “Sower”. He ploughs on, figure accentuated in deep impasto, across a field cast in blue shadow, chrome yellow corn merging with the sun.

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