Watercolor - Watercolor

Japanese: 水彩 - すいさい

Paintings made with paints dissolved in water. In English, watercolor, in French, aquarelle. This term includes those made with opaque paints such as gouache and tempera, but in the narrow sense, it refers to those made with transparent paints. Transparent paints are pigments mixed with gum arabic, water, glycerin, etc. As seen in the examples of Dürer and others, watercolors have been used since the Renaissance for sketching and preliminary drawings during travels, but watercolor paintings as finished works began in England in the late 18th century to early 19th century, and were established by Cotman, Constable, and others. In Japan, it was started by Asai Chu, Ishii Hakutei, Miyake Katsumi, and others.

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Japanese:

水で溶かして用いる絵具で描いた絵。英語でwatercolor，フランス語でaquarelle。グアッシュ，テンペラなど不透明絵具を用いたものも含めるが，狭義には透明絵具を使ったものをさす。透明絵具は，顔料をアラビアゴム，水，グリセリンなどと練り合わせたもの。デューラーなどの例に見えるごとく，ルネサンスのころから旅行の際の写生や下絵のために描かれたが，完成した作品としての水彩画は18世紀末から19世紀初めの英国に始まり，コットマン，コンスタブルらによって確立した。日本では浅井忠，石井柏亭，三宅克己らに始まる。

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