impasto

Caption: 3 Made in gilded metal and marble, Bungalow 5's piper gold statue has a distinctive profile, along with a long bill and long, slender legs covered with a textured impasto.

Traces of the artist's hand are always legible within them; paint is sometimes applied across broad swaths of the canvas in a rapid alia prima ductus, and sometimes details are built up in layered impasto. Elsewhere, the untreated canvas is left exposed, and its pale beige comes into play as the only "real" color.

The items for sale included abstracts, Farsi calligraphy and pastoral images in the thick-paint impasto style.

Sonia Bublaitis is exhibiting four photographic prints which look like explosions of colour, and Howard Manttan's Rainbow Blast uses heavy impasto and diagonal lines across the canvas to also create a colour blast.

He went on to use symbolic black paint and the heavy layering 'impasto' technique to represent other brave human rights activists in different parts of the world.

"By her own description, Anna Molka was a passionate expressionist painter of vigor working in heavy impasto oils.

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The vibrant colours, heavy impasto, and rigorous geometry of the late '50s now gave way to contemplative works of the highest quality.

Meanwhile, the artwork is a celebration of the expressionist stuff of paint, with heavy turbulent impasto creating textured surfaces, animated and dynamic in feeling: colour is used for emotional and atmospheric means.

The roughly 37-by-29-inch ''Sunset at Montmajour'' depicts a dry landscape of twisting oak trees, bushes and sky, and was done during the period when van Gogh was increasingly adopting the thick ''impasto'' brush strokes that became typical of his work in the final years of his short life.

The paintings, with their wedding-cake-icing-thick impasto brushstrokes, illustrate a German pastoral countryside that fulfills two nightmarish visions: the romantic/nationalistic imagery conjured up by the National Socialists, and the impracticable and cruel scenario of the New Germany, a nation of farmers, emptied of much of its population through starvation and forced migration.

I often paint in severe sunlight which is the most obvious aspect of my work, the blinding glare of the noonday sun and the dark cast shadows dramatically cutting through the picture plane of the crust impasto art works, he says.