A portrait purchased for under $50 at a Minnesota garage sale is at the center of a heated art world debate. The painting, ...

The Van Gogh Museum declined to comment to The Wall ... he’d bought it because he liked the work’s impasto, or thickly painted brushstrokes, Anderson said. The buyer was told the garage ...

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Van Gogh also used the impasto style to reflect feeling and emotion, especially within his self-portraits. Claude Monet used the impasto technique to describe the texture and light of his subjects.

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.