Word: impastoed
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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...
...series Suzuki next turned into an angry black scrawl, faded into heavy yellow and black (Soul Fading), then dramatically changed into a thick impasto of blues, orange, black, with lines scratched out by Ray's palette knife. Believing that "the artist, like physicists, must use the abstract to get to the concrete," Ray's next two portraits of Suzuki were abstractions of opposing lines. No. 7 stopped most viewers in their tracks. It was a startling blank canvas, washed in with cloudy browns. But Taoist Lecturer Dr. C. Y. Chang, on hand for the opening, recognized it immediately...
...First Prize went to Abraham Rattner's glowing Composition with Three Figures (opposite). A pleasantly romantic still life by Hobson Pittman took second money, Francis Chapin sailed in third with Regatta at Edgartown (opposite), and William Congdon came fourth with a chic peek at Venice, done in glimmering impasto...
Like most European artists, Soutine dreamed of Paris. In 1913, when he was 19, he got there. Modigliani and Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz started the proud, lonely youth on the road to fame. "For those who like painting rich in thick, luminous impasto," Lipchitz wrote, "Soutine is the greatest modern master. You can eat his pictures by the spoonful...