No longer a medium in search of itself, pastel now stands
on its own as the vibrant, protean material it truly is. It has matured, proven
its lyrical and muscular talents, and outstripped the epithet
“Renaissance” that once rightfully touted the reemergence of a resource
that had been marginalized and misunderstood for too long. We can
finally get beyond the slightly defensive impulse to praise a pastel in
terms of how its pictorial qualities compare to an oil painting, and simply
praise the outstanding qualities of pastel work. More>>
