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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Every aspect of each design, from sketching to gouache rendering to fabrication, is a product of the human hand.
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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
Visitors will be able to get close up with the rich and intricate details in 40 years of Mead’s gouache paintings, an experience that photographs of his work can’t possibly replicate.
—Leslie Katz, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
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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
Visitors will be able to get close up with the rich and intricate details in 40 years of Mead’s gouache paintings, an experience that photographs of his work can’t possibly replicate.
—Leslie Katz, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
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“Gouache.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gouache. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.
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