gouache

noun

1
: a method of painting with opaque watercolors
2
a
: a picture painted by gouache
b
: the pigment used in gouache

Examples of gouache in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Most of his pictures at Hemphill are oils, and the others employ gouache, sometimes supplemented by ink. Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023 The gouaches are all from the early 1950s and show the influence of such European or Euro-American artists as Arshile Gorky (a Kainen acquaintance) and Paul Klee. Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023 The following day, Doja unveiled a second cover — this time of a gouache watercolor painting of two arachnids. Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2023 In her illustrations, Ms. Schwartz favored gouache, a form of watercolor, and pen and ink. Emily Langer, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023 The collection grew out of Rosalind Gersten Jacobs and Melvin Jacobs' friendships with the artists in question - its starting point was a gouache by Magritte, Eloge de la dialectique ($2.5 million - $4.5 million), which was given to Rosalind Gersten Jacobs by William and Noma Copley. Kate Matthams, Forbes, 3 May 2022 The look was based on the comic book covers of her run, which have this beautiful painterly sort of gouache watercolor look and a very specific palette. Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 6 June 2023 McCall reveled in a type of realistic authenticity — rendered through gouache on paper — inspired by editorial and advertorial illustration of the 1930s and ’40s. Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 9 May 2023 Kabyle, Berber, Muslim, and Arab, exhibited her gouaches and clay sculptures at the Parisian gallery of the art dealer Aimé Maeght. Alice Kaplan, The New York Review of Books, 20 Apr. 2023

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Word History

Etymology

French, from Italian guazzo, literally, puddle, probably from Latin aquatio watering place, from aquari to fetch water, from aqua water — more at island

First Known Use

1882, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of gouache was in 1882

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“Gouache.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gouache. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.

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