impastoed

In one example, a heavily impastoed surface suggests a roughly formed ceramic ball.

Sandonà is best known for his luxurious thickly impastoed society portraits.

As a group, they are characterized by impastoed surfaces, often enriched by added textures.

A cloud made with an impastoed brush stroke in a lively blue sky irrationally suggests a soft breeze.

Impastoed paint serves several purposes.

The one oil is a large vertical in which the impastoed pigments are textured and, some being oilier than others, they reflect the light distractingly.

Another work that makes one curious to see more is the roughly impastoed painting of flowers by an artist named Louise Herreshoff (1876-1967).

Katurah Hutcheson's cracked paintings on carpet bring Milton Resnick's impastoed surfaces to mind.

She developed a way of printing that created passages of impastoed ink, their tiny ridges mimicking the peaks and valleys of a mountainous landscape.

The colors are deep and rich (browns, reds, oranges, greens) and thickly laid down in impastoed strokes that jostle, skitter and waver.

Ms. Gandolfi's thickly impastoed canvas is of an interior with allusions to figures that is half gray-brown-white and crusty, half deep river green and smooth.

Still, the best painting is the heavily impastoed study of a cherry tree in bloom by Dima Karabchievsky, while the most problematic pictures come from Sergei Polyakov.

One of Ms. Smith's images features dismembered brushes painting rainbow stripes; others are fields of dark, heavily impastoed pigment imbedded with crushed cans in small picture frames.

Other items of note include a small impastoed seascape by Edward Hopper and two charcoal drawings attributed to him - unconvincingly so in the case of the self-portrait with a beard.

The Grove Dictionary of Art states that "the miniatures assigned to Gibson are characterized by the thick pigment and parallel striations that give his work an impastoed quality".

The only good passages are some impastoed brush strokes - not found in the study - that Mr. Stella has brilliantly and perversely shaded so that they look like photographs of themselves.

But it can mention two particularly important works: Thomas Eakins's "Portrait of Charles Haseltine" and John Marin's richly impastoed "Sea of Cape Split, Maine."

Having established his reputation with those spare, flat washes of color, his latest works are dense smears of mottled pigment, giant finger paintings of a sort, that hark back to his impastoed early works.

Large topographical abstractions laid out from a great height, showing cities and countryside in harmony, express Yvonne Jacquette's sanguine outlook, and Kay Walkingstick's impastoed paintings are also on the side of spiritual uplift.

After all, Ms. Weld's dense conglomerations of impastoed gesture, as vehemently expressive as they might be in themselves, are not quite the whole story in her exhibition at the Hunterdon Museum of Art here.

Adjoining this is Gary Falkenstern's "Chimes of Dawn," a vigorously impastoed canvas that is divided vertically into black and whitish fields, each inhabited by one or two scrolling lines of red and other colors.

But it is also very noticeable in paintings like "Oracle," in which an inverted triangle of bottle green is suspended against a wash of pinkish-gray applied to an apparently waxed ground below a "sky" of impastoed white.

Clover Vail's beautiful untitled oil, a richly layered web of impastoed color, is a good example, as is Katinka Mann's "Black White 3," a photographic relief based on a shaped canvas, which subtly combines the abstract and the concrete.

Still, these impastoed images complement the all-but-geometric compositions of Mr. Wiley, the most striking of which is divided between a white diagonal on a rusty red ground and a red diagonal on white - shades of Jack Youngerman.

Glenn Brown bases his paintings on color photographs of heavily impastoed Expressionist images by artists like Frank Auerbach and Karel Appel, reducing their bumps and swirls and heated emotion to a fastidious smoothness that's easy to mistake for a photograph.