Even though
the impasto painting method has been around for as long as painting, for many years the goal was to hide the idea that something is painted.
Unlike fthe ew of the art methods which take away the evidence of an artist's hand,
the impasto painting method produces not only a three - dimensionality and high texture of the painting's surface, but it also adds a high element of drama and expressionism to the work.
Not exact matches
One of the few of Fontana's works to be uniquely titled, Concetto Spaziale, La Fine Di Dio exhibits
impasto - style
painting using materials and
methods developed by the artist himself.
Rejecting traditional
methods of building
paintings with layers of thin glazes, the Impressionists worked spontaneously to capture the fleeting effects of light using bright pigments, large brushstrokes, and thick
impasto.
La Rue Noire (the road at Night,) 77 x 40 inches, oil on canvas is
painted in a heavy,
impasto method of mark making, in beautiful bronze, umber, yellow, orange and plum.
His former technique of staining and saturating wet canvases was replaced by a
method in which multiple layers of thick acrylic
paint and gels are scumbled, spattered, and built up on the canvas in a rich
impasto.