Word: impasto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GREGORIO PRESTOPINO-Nordness, 831 Madison Ave. at 69th. As a painter, Prestopino carries no excess baggage: he carves clean chunks of landscape from pastry-rich impasto, props blunt black boulders and fallen trees around like sentries, guides the eye to figures of feverish hue-orange, red, pink, green-wading in lily ponds and squatting in lakes. Recent oils. Through...
...long before she gets to the real tragedies in Rembrandt's life, she has squandered the reader's ability to react. In the first half of the book, each argument or frustration is magnified into a crisis; every silence is strained or charged. Despite such emotional impasto, the book has some authority in the field of art, where Author Schmitt has plainly done her homework on painters and the ways of masters and apprentices...