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‖ impasto|ɪmˈpɑːstəʊ, -ˈpæs-| [It., n. of action f. impastare to impaste.] 1. Painting. The laying on of colour thickly; impasting, as a characteristic of style: see prec. 3. Also attrib.
1784J. Barry in Lect. Paint. vi. (Bohn 1848) 223 All that impasto, or embodying of colour, which may be necessary for certain lucid parts. 1838–9Hallam Hist. Lit. III. iii. vi. §93. 341 A certain redundancy, as some may account it, gives fulness, or what the painters call impasto, to his style. 1859Gullick & Timbs Paint. 6 In the works of the northern tempera painters there are very marked differences observable in their impasto or body of colour. 1880Spectator 5 June 719 It is impossible to clean impasto work. 2. Ceramics. (See quots.)
1903M. L. Solon Hist. Old French Faïence 188 Impasto, clay or enamel colours laid so thickly on to the ware as to stand up in relief from its surface. 1960R. G. Haggar Conc. Encycl. Cont. Pott. & Porc. 233/1 ‘Impasto blue’, inky blue pigment which is applied thickly and stands up in slight but palpable relief on early ‘oak-leaf’ pots made at Florence. |