I like both extremes if they're handled well--or best of all a good variety within a single painting--but this debate certainly goes back to the 1880s or so when the Salon juries were complaining about impastos "which please only the colormen." ❋ James Gurney (2009)
Because it is usually said that transparency is adviceable in shadows and impastos in bright spots. ❋ James Gurney (2009)
He is every bit as serious as forebears like de Kooning, but his series of concentric squares, radiating from the lower right of the canvas to the top left, represents a hard-edged riposte to the anarchic, even orgiastic impastos of Pollock. ❋ Unknown (2009)
May I say that if I have done an injustice to Van Meegeren's "daring color harmonies and buttery impastos" I'll eat my hat. ❋ Lopez, Jonathan (2009)
In remarking that these pictures are "exquisitely painted," I was giving Van Meegeren his due as a technician, specifically referring to his daring color harmonies and buttery impastos — factors that cannot be judged on the basis of the small black-and-white illustrations provided in my book. ❋ Lopez, Jonathan (2009)
Utah-based landscape painter Brad Teare has just launched a blog with some nice explanatory videos called "Thick Paint" about painting with heavy impastos. ❋ James Gurney (2009)
In the second row of test swatches I experimented with Wingel and Oleopasto, two Winsor and Newton products that are designed for quick drying impastos. ❋ James Gurney (2008)
Comparing David Dawson's snapshot of the sitter in the studio and Freud's finished portrait panel, one learns that Queen Elizabeth, who quite fittingly sat for the onetime fan of the pharaohs in 2001, might be seen as a mildly vivacious old lady, rather than as a contorted knot of impastos. ❋ Bell, Julian (2008)
They were more portable than oil or water colors as consistently effective color containers and watercolor cakes were late eighteenth or early nineteenth-century inventions. 36 Unlike washes or body colors, pastels offered the possibility of a wide range of effects, from oil-like impastos to delicate translucency. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The canvases that the vivid studies generated are exciting, with their ragged impastos, their swoops of orange and dull blue, and their unstable reflections, but the intimacy and intensity of the watercolors can't be beat. ❋ Unknown (2007)
And in order that his colours, his tesseræ of molten glass and his impastos might be all ready prepared by dawn of day, he forced the lads to rise in the middle of the night. ❋ Anatole France (1884)
The camera movements are graceful, almost ethereal, yet the objects themselves - with their impastos of organic and inorganic materials, their metaphoric resonances, historical allusions and intimations of war - feel unmistakably weighty. ❋ By MANOHLA DARGIS (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. ❋ By SOUREN MELIKIAN (2011)
Vast canvases, thick impastos, raw handling and melodramatic, performance art-style imagery were the order of the day, and pieces sold for vast sums. ❋ Unknown (2011)
His faceless mixed media impastos belie Orwellian anonymity, while simultaneously evoking the breadth of emotion experienced by the isolated individual within a community. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The colors throughout the show -- atmospheric, fleshlike, and evocative of the silvery surface of the sea -- are obtained from impastos of pigment and plaster. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The artist, however, manages to introduce an equal element of disorder into the homologous structure by painting whirling impastos of red acrylic in the spacious background, waves of blood that crash against each other in a roiling storm. ❋ Unknown (2010)
[impasto] is a [painting] [technique] ❋ Sweetcupcake (2016)
