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"Painting Quality" (excerpt)
Impasto, the laying on of thick paint, is the natural extension of the learning process that began with the brush and brushstrokes. A painting may have good value relationships, color, edges, etc. and it may resemble the subject matter, but without impasto it will not look “alive”. The painter must have within or develop an appreciation of the sensual quality of paint concomitant with the abstract nature of impasto.
If we take the original surface, canvas or panel, as a flat plane the function of heavier paint application is to break the surface and create a new plane. This, together with thinly painted shadows, will give the surface a multidimensional look.”
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