impaston.
/ɪmˈpastəʊ/, /ɪmˈpɑːstəʊ/, U.S. /ɪmˈpæstoʊ/, /ɪmˈpɑstoʊ/ 1. Painting. The laying on of colour thickly; impasting, as a characteristic of style: see impaste v. 3. Also attributive.
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impasting1728
impastoa1806
loading1859
a1806 J. Barry in R. N. Wornum Lect. on Painting (1848) 223 All that impasto or embodying of colour, which may be necessary for certain lucid parts.
1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. vi. 612 A certain redundancy, as some may account it, gives fulness, or what the painters call impasto, to his style.
1859 T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs Painting 6 In the works of the northern tempera painters there are very marked differences observable in their impasto or body of colour.
1880 Spectator 5 June 719 It is impossible to clean impasto work.
2. Ceramics. (See quots.)
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > enamelling > [noun] > type of enamelling
champlevé1856
sunk enamel1882
basse-taille1899
plique à jour1899
impasto1903
minakari1970
1903 M. L. Solon Hist. Old Fr. Faïence 188 Impasto, clay or enamel colours laid so thickly on to the ware as to stand up in relief from its surface.
1960 R. G. Haggar Conc. Encycl. Continental Pottery & Porcelain 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.
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