1
: a method of painting with opaque watercolors
2
a
: a picture painted by gouache
b
: the pigment used in gouache
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The singer-songwriter has been displaying his visual artworks since 2007, when an exhibition of 200 watercolor and gouache paintings based on drawings and sketches opened in Germany.
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Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2025
Every aspect of each design, from sketching to gouache rendering to fabrication, is a product of the human hand.
—Kyle Roderick, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
From a medieval English baptismal font with its original stucco intact (Blumka Gallery, D7) to a strangely jubilant gouache of a volcanic eruption in 1830 (Hill-Stone, D3), the fair still leans on museum-grade objects that boast enough oddity to beckon the wallets of collectors.
—Walker Mimms, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Animal faces in the mizrach gouache paintings were based on a late-19th-century anti-Semitic German postcard depicting Jews as animals, according to the scholar Liliya Dashevski.
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2024
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Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2025
Every aspect of each design, from sketching to gouache rendering to fabrication, is a product of the human hand.
—Kyle Roderick, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
From a medieval English baptismal font with its original stucco intact (Blumka Gallery, D7) to a strangely jubilant gouache of a volcanic eruption in 1830 (Hill-Stone, D3), the fair still leans on museum-grade objects that boast enough oddity to beckon the wallets of collectors.
—Walker Mimms, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Animal faces in the mizrach gouache paintings were based on a late-19th-century anti-Semitic German postcard depicting Jews as animals, according to the scholar Liliya Dashevski.
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2024
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“Gouache.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gouache. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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