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chalk pastel Pumpkins
a Famous artist that used chalk pastels: Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas is a famous artist who is historically most connected with pastel. Degas is considered the artist most responsible for its transformation into a major medium. When he began working with pastels, they were primarily used for portraits and often as precursors to complete oil paintings. Degas, however, created a very large body of finished pastel drawings.
He worked in pastel throughout his career and in 1880 it became his primary medium. The artist often combined it with other media such as watercolor, oil, and monotype, creating rich surfaces with a variety of paint qualities applied in complex layers. |