French pastel

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  • Helen Frankenthaler: Chairman of the Board
    In painting: French pastels

    French pastels, with the sharpened lumps of pigment used by Ice Age artists, are the purest and most direct painting materials. Pastel pigments are mixed only with sufficient gum to bind them for drying into stick molds. Generally, they are used on raw…

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