What is Impasto?
Channel: CREAR Art and Culture
Date: 2021-03-05

Discover more about the Impasto technique on our website: https://crearac.com/techniques/definitions-techniques-impasto/

Artworks featured:
Jacopo Tintoretto, Self-Portrait (c. 1548), Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Jacopo Tintoretto, Susanna and the Elders (1555-1556), Kunsthistorisches Museum.
Titian, Christ Carrying the Cross (c. 1565), Museo del Prado.
Frans Hals, Gypsy Girl (1628-1630), Louvre Museum.
Frans Hals, Portrait of a Boy (c. 1640), Private Collection.
Rembrandt, Head of Christ (1648-1656), Abu Dhabi Louvre.
Rembrandt, Self-Portrait at 63 (1669), National Gallery (London).
Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night (1889), MoMA.
Vincent van Gogh, Wheat Field with Cypresses (1889), Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Claude Monet, The Water Lily Pond, Green Harmony (1899), Musée d’Orsay.
Claude Monet, Water Lilies (1916), National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, Japan).
Willem de Kooning in his studio (1961).
Three Paintings by Willem de Kooning (photograph taken in 1968), National Archief (Netherlands).