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09:31 Mar 30, 2022 

Thanks all for your suggestions. I'm going to close this post without selecting a 'right' translation as it several options would work in different contexts.

12:35 Mar 22, 2022 

Aha: https://art.moderne.utl13.fr/2015/10/cours-du-12-octobre-201...

So these are the actual words of Gérard Garouste, painter, currently in his 70s. I obviously can't know whether you are translating that article or the book these words are taken from.

With this as context it is clear enough to me that Garouste is talking about 4 examples of deliberate techniques: impasto, depth, transitions (presumably) and ... what?

"Sinking-in" wouldn't then be appropriate because it is always an unintended phenomenon. Here this is something else. To me the only real possibility is that he is using the term as shorthand for something which looks like sinking-in but is an imitation of it.

And the context of the linked article really confirms this: "la remise à jour de la ‘peinture historique’ ... Garouste ... ne se contente pas simplement de les copier. Il prolonge plutôt l’histoire de la peinture classique en lui apportant une modernité singulière, créant ainsi son propre vocabulaire pictural."

The real meaning thus has to be something like "sinking-in effects", as it's deliberate.

09:50 Mar 21, 2022 

I should have given more context. Here is the sentence in French:
Il y a d’abord une cohérence très classique et j’enfreins ensuite la règle à l’intérieur d’une notion classique, sans jamais toucher ce qui serait hors des normes de la peinture à l’huile, en jouant avec toutes les ficelles de la peinture classique du XVIIIe siècle et de son vocabulaire : les empâtements, les profondeurs, les passages, les embus.

09:42 Mar 21, 2022 

Thank you!