Sunday, October 27, 2013

Impasto

Impasto is "paint applied very thickly to canvas or support."


Above is an untitled, 1961 work done by Robert Ryman. It is an oil painting on unstretched linen. In the image, you can see the brush strokes that the artist used as the paint as been applied very thickly to the linen, giving it an actual, physical texture. The way Ryman applied the paint appears to have created layers of paint on top of one another, giving it the look and feel of a textured surface.

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