This will be a brief post, mostly images. In general, I wanted to add to the collection of artists posted in the last blog, and increase awareness of the work that has been created with pastel. The diversity of thinking, applying, and composing, is wide and worth viewing over time. Some will be familiar and I would imagine, some, not so much. Either way, it's a happy occasion coming across old friends and meeting some new ones along the way.
October Amagansett, pastel.
Bartlett's lush surface and uninhibited color internalize the idea of garden.
Jim Dine's 'Red Scarf', created with charcoal and pastel, is persuasive, internal, and moody.
Heavier and even more compressed than Jenny Saville's oil pastel. Through both contour and color, Saville simultaneously thrusts the image forward in space while tilting powerfully backwards, compressing space while extending the air in which to breathe.
It is with true contrast that one approaches the lighthearted Gauguin image of the Breton Girls Dancing, or pauses to look at the Kahn's with their kinetic energy and joyous light.
Although I don't think of Milton Avery immediately in response to pastels, I was happily surprised by this gentle, little image.
On to the cling-clang and chatter of other favorites. Are you familiar with Yvonne Jacquette's city scenes?
or Larry River's self portraits?
How about Henry Moore's mother and child images, or William Glacken's city scene?
There is range in this pure material, the ability to speak through it. It is potentially deep or light, profoundly evocative, a sensitive tool for the artist, and seemingly magical in context.
Jim Dine, 'Tree' (Kimono)
Thanks for sharing, Patti!
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