What's the difference between gouache and painting?

Gouache


Definition:

  • (n.) A method of painting with opaque colors, which have been ground in water and mingled with a preparation of gum; also, a picture thus painted.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Art historian Meike Hoffmann, of the Free University of Berlin, said the art world would be particularly excited about the discovery of a valuable Matisse painting from around 1920 and works that were previously unknown or unseen: an Otto Dix self-portrait dated around 1919, and a Chagall gouache painting of an "allegorical scene" with a man kissing a woman wearing a sheep's head.
  • (2) One gouache, Lion Tamer by Max Beckmann, which had been sold by Gurlitt to a Cologne auction house in 2011, had originally belonged to the Jewish art dealer and collector Alfred Flechtheim.
  • (3) A ceramic lion emblazoned with the words "Vote Labour" by Grayson Perry , which featured in the Guardian earlier this week, fetched £42,000, according to a Labour MP quoted by the FT. An untitled gouache on paper – a float inside a window mount – donated by Sir Anish Kapoor raised £36,000.
  • (4) Sir Antony Gormley has donated a cast-iron statue, Small Turn III (2013) from his Blockwise series; Sir Anish Kapoor has donated an untitled gouache on paper – a float inside a window mount; and Mark Wallinger has donated White Horse (2011), an editioned model of the proposed 50m (164ft) sculpture for Ebbsfleet, Kent.
  • (5) PCP can be determined in water colors, body colors, showcard paints, gouache paints, and colored inks.

Painting


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Paint
  • (n.) The act or employment of laying on, or adorning with, paints or colors.
  • (n.) The work of the painter; also, any work of art in which objects are represented in color on a flat surface; a colored representation of any object or scene; a picture.
  • (n.) Color laid on; paint.
  • (n.) A depicting by words; vivid representation in words.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Also on display in the hallway is a painting of Carson with Jesus.
  • (3) Antoine Comte, a lawyer for the Schloss heirs, said all the family wanted was the return of the painting.
  • (4) Using an oil painting by G.F. Watts displayed in the National Portrait Gallery of London, we made an attempt to diagnose the dermatological alterations recognizable.
  • (5) 7 male and 39 female undergraduates were alternately assigned to rooms painted red or Baker-Miller Pink.
  • (6) The report paints a picture characterised too often by international indifference, even over the collection and distribution of the raw data on migrant deaths.
  • (7) These results indicate that, following a single painting of DNFB onto Langerhans cell-deficient skin, the numbers of Lyt2+ cells do not change significantly, but do change functionally.
  • (8) Case mothers were more likely to report occupational exposure to metals (odds ratio [OR] = 8.0, P = 0.01), petroleum products (OR = 3.7, P = 0.03), and paints or pigments (OR = 3.7, P = 0.05).
  • (9) PT painting resulted in rather higher sensitivity with Triton X-100 than with sodium lauryl sulphate.
  • (10) On the one hand, he has used it as an opportunity to paint Ukip as demonised by a media in hock to the politically correct establishment.
  • (11) A Landolt ring (diameter 43.5 cm; contrast 1:1.5) served as a test stimulus; it was painted on a disc 87 cm in diameter that could be rotated in steps of 45 degrees.
  • (12) The streets of Jiegu are now littered with concrete remnants of modern structures and the flattened mud and painted wood of traditional Tibetan buildings.
  • (13) She said it was hard to tell whether the paintings were stolen to order or would be offered on the black market, but added that they would be easy to transport out of Switzerland.
  • (14) Was Snare genuine, was the painting stolen, was he making it up?
  • (15) Injuries from paint require emergency surgical débridement and exploration because of the extreme tissue toxicity of the injected material.
  • (16) Some art experts have petitioned against Seracini drilling through the Vasari fresco, claiming any paint found behind might have been left by another artist.
  • (17) The Fed is also painting itself as one of the Good Guys in the Libor scandal, pointing out that it spotted the problems in 2008, and promptly tipped off the Brits.
  • (18) Trauma to the hand caused by injection of paint or grease solvents results in tissue destruction and later necrosis and fibrosis.
  • (19) "I want to talk about Curb Your Enthusiasm instead, and the paintings of Chagall, the music of Amy Winehouse and Woody Allen films."
  • (20) Following exposure to white spirit vapour, the effect of the expired solvent on evidential breath alcohol equipment was investigated under controlled exposure chamber conditions and in a simulated painting exercise.

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