I feel art is tiring and needs some rejuvenation. Hence, I have coined the term, Van Gogh unlocked. One of the most pronounced, standout features of his artwork is his use of impasto oil paint. I ...

This painting is all about clarity, volume and tangibility. The layer of paint in Ploughed Fields is compact and impasto. Van Gogh was anything but frugal with his application of paint. He loaded his ...

The National Gallery surveys two crowded years in the career of the Dutch master, writes John Westbrooke Vincent Van Gogh, ...

Van Gogh’s painting technique had to be taken into account when treating the work: his light impasto, drawing-like lines in the glass and the blossoms, and the open brushstrokes in the foreground, ...

in which Van Gogh described a simple but multi-chromatic composition “à la Seurat.” “In flat tints, but coarsely brushed in full impasto, the walls pale lilac, the floor in a broken and ...

Van Gogh is perhaps best known for his impasto as well as his penchant for vibrancy, for yellow – but the real stars of the show are these muted moments – unexpected heavyweights, beige and ...

Van Gogh told his brother Theo in 1888 ... more often his own trademark impasto: thick, dizzying swirls of paint. What a ...

Image caption, Noon, or The Siesta, After Millet, Vincent Van Gogh, 1890, oil on canvas (Peter Horree / Alamy Stock Photo) Applying thick areas of paint on a canvas like this is known as impasto.

While we have long been aware of the painter’s striking innovations—his use of light, intensely vivid color, and impasto—we can become too readily accustomed to them. The exhibition hammers them home ...

Little wonder, considering they were painted during the "feverishly productive" months Van Gogh spent at Arles between ... in parts, the impasto is as thick as a bead or a button.