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‘Powder and Light’: The Getty Introduces Pastel Collection
3/3/22 at 6:44am
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Drawing attention to the scores of pastel styles utilized by artists throughout a time period of “radical experimentation,” many of the impressionists during the 1870s to 1880s, used pastels as a way to capture the ever evolving world through tones of light that evoked the essence of “dreams and imagination.” “Shrugging off academic convention, European artists experimented with pastels in new ways, revealing its limitless aesthetic possibilities and an exceptional range of colors and textures.” One example of a pastel on display is that of French artist Redon’s portrait from 1900 called “Baronne de Domecy;” a pastel and graphite piece on light brown laid paper that depicts a baroness still and in a hypnotic gaze, seemingly removed from the floral delicate and blurred background, emphasizing her dream-like state. Developed by the head curator of European Paintings at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and former Associate Curator of Drawings at the Getty Museum, Beeny, the exhibition demonstrates the fine artistry of pastels in which some artists utilized their fingertips to accentuate a a personal and “touched-all-over” aesthetic to their textured and iridescent fine art.
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