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Pastels Are Damned Beautiful

by Bridget Quinn January 10, 2022January 12, 2022

An exhibition spanning the 16th century to the present displays pastels in all their lush, radiating color.

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Why Adélaïde Labille-Guiard’s 1783 Portrait of a Mother Nursing Broke New Ground

by Karen Chernick June 27, 2021June 30, 2021

When Labille-Guiard exhibited the portrait at the Paris Salon, it was the only woman in the series. And she was breastfeeding.

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The Remarkable Success Story of Rosalba Carriera, the Original “Queen of Pastel”

by Karen Chernick October 14, 2020November 5, 2020

Partly thanks to Carriera’s skill and clever marketing, pastel portraits became one of the most popular art forms of the Rococo era.

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Pastel Then, Pastel Now

by Stephen Truax December 14, 2019January 15, 2021

The Swiss artist Nicolas Party is both the subject and curator of Pastel, an extraordinary exhibition examining the under-appreciated, fugitive medium and its history.

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How 18th-Century Artists Pieced Together Pastel Portraits

by Abe Ahn February 28, 2018February 28, 2018

In order to make large portraits of European elites, artists had to literally piece together pieces of paper, circumventing the limitations of their medium.

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