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Oil paint is the traditional medium for impasto painting, due to its thick consistency and slow drying time. Acrylic paint can also be used for impasto by adding heavy body acrylic gels. Impasto is generally not used in watercolor or tempera without the addition of thickening agent due to the inherent thinness of these media.
Matter painting (French: Haute Pâte, lit. 'thick paste') also known as Matterism refers to a style of painting that emphasizes the material qualities of paint through heavy impasto . The style marked a return to impulses characteristic of abstract expressionism.
Wolmark's paintings, like those of Van Gogh, are characterized by a bold application of paint and heavy impasto. These characteristics were criticised by the artist and writer Walter Sickert, who wrote: "Mr. Wollmark (sic) presents a curious problem. Beginning with quite reasonable pictures he has of late years put on a turgid and bombastic ...
He studied painting, drawing, and art history, under instructor Dr. Birger Sandzén, who influenced Johnson's style. Johnson's style was impressionistic with heavy impasto . [ 1 ] [ 3 ] In an article in the Omaha World-Herald magazine, in November 1969, art critic Leonard Thiessen wrote,
Most of these employ Redfield's use of thick impasto, painted in a style similar to his snow scenes. The influence of Vincent Van Gogh's spring scenes which Van Gogh painted in Arles (from February 1888 to May 1889), is fairly evident, as Van Gogh also used a fairly thick impasto- but never as thick as Redfield's. However, Redfield apparently ...
Nonetheless, Sickert's paintings of the Camden Town Murder series of c. 1906–1909 were painted in heavy impasto and narrow tonal range, as were numerous other obese nudes in the pre-World War I period in which the fleshiness of the figures is connected to the thickness of the paint—a device that was later adapted by Lucian Freud.