One of the greatest challenges they faced was re-creating the “impasto effect ... the creation of the Lego “Sunflowers” set, ...

Rembrandt van Rijn revolutionized painting with a 3D effect using his impasto technique, where thick paint makes a masterpiece protrude from the surface. Scientists have now found out how he did it.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art has also loaned its Sunflowers painting ... indeed, in parts, the impasto is as thick as a bead or a button. The colours are "perverse" with fields alight with ...

Vincent van Gogh is a towering figure in the art world. His post-Impressionist sunflowers and nightscapes, at the time revolutionary for their bold colours and heavy impasto, are today familiar to ...