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The 21 pages that link to Impasto, each with the reason it gives.
RembrandtRelated: Raised highlights help make selected passages appear to catch real light.
PaintingRelated: Impasto makes the physical thickness and direction of paint visible.
Oil paintRelated: Oil paint’s body allows raised strokes that preserve their shape as they cure.
Gestural abstractionRelated: Raised paint preserves the force and material presence of each mark.
ColoritoRelated: Its material surface makes paint handling itself expressive.
SunflowersRelated: Van Gogh’s textured paint gives petals and backgrounds a tactile force.
Chaïm SoutineRelated: Soutine’s heavy paint makes the surface itself part of a subject’s agitation.
Lucian FreudRelated: Freud’s loaded brushstrokes make skin and flesh appear materially present.