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Modern Art Olor: 1OUACHE, gwash, in art, is a form of water-•olor using opaque pigment rather than the more raditional transparent (aquarelle) technique, "he pigments employed are essentially the same s those for transparent watercolor (finely ground lowdered pigment, with a small amount of gly-erin, honey, and oxgall in an aqueous solution if gum), but they are made opaque by the addi-ion of white. The gouache may be applied to white or tinted paper in the same manner as transparent watercolor.The halls, pavilions, rerandas, and gates are grouped in innumerable ourtyards connected by colonnades. The build-ngs themselves are raised on white marble ter-aces. Columns and walls are generally painted ed, while the tou^kung are decorated with intri-•ate designs in blue, green, and gold, forming a ool belt which accentuates the deep shady over-lang of the eaves. The whole structure is xowned by a Roof of glazed yellow or green iles. The ingenuity of the Chinese in applying olor to architecture on an all-inclusive scale has lever been equaled.
The final consonants -b, -d, -g, and -r were dropped, and final semivowels appeared, to form diphthongs with the main vowel. The number of tones increased to four. In the majority of the modern art olor Chinese dialects there are usually only two grades of consonants (p and p') and, as we have noted, three consonant endings (-n, -ng, and a modern art olor -r). The four tones of modern art olor Chinese differ from "those of ancient Chinese in that the old first tone has been subdivided into the modern art olor first and second tones and the old fourth-tone words have been distributed among the other modern art olor tones. |
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