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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.
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.