impaste

American  

[im-peyst] / ɪmˈpeɪst /

verb (used with object)

Obsolete.

impasted, impasting

1. to cover with or enclose in a paste.

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impaste British  

/ ˌɪmpæsˈteɪʃən, ɪmˈpeɪst /

verb

1. (tr) to apply paint thickly to

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Other Word Forms

• impastation
  noun

Etymology

Origin of impaste

From the Italian word impastare, dating back to 1540–50. See im- ¹, paste

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

impasted impasting

The art trade predicted that Frank Auerbach’s expressive and thickly impasted 1965 “Head of Gerda Boehm,” estimated at £300,000 to £500,000, would fly.

From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2016

“Growing Up in America” is a title scrawled in yellow across a dark, impasted painting of a ship at sea.

From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2014

“The foreground very low, brambles and undergrowth. Behind, violet hills, a green and pink sky with a crescent moon. The foreground, above all, is thickly impasted, tufts of bramble with yellow, violet, green highlights.”

From Washington Post

For some, the single most memorable painting in the biennial was a large, creamily impasted canvas by Terry Winters, Good Government, 1984.

From Time Magazine Archive

His enchanting colouring, impasted like that of Giorgione, vivid as that of Titian, ran through the most delicate gradations and melted into the most elusive harmonies.

From Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers by Singleton, Esther

Impastā′tion, act of impasting: that which is made into paste; Impas′to, in painting, the thick laying on of pigments.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

This did not prevent him, though, from elsewhere chaffing the adepts of the open-air school, whom he accused of impasting with a kitchen ladle.

From His Masterpiece by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred