who are great artist in pastel drawings?

Answer 1

The pastel medium was first mentioned by Leonardo da Vinci in 1495.

The 18th-century painters Maurice Quentin de La Tour and Rosalba Carriera are especially well known for their pastel technique. The 19th-Century French painter Edgar Degas was a most prolific user of pastel and its champion. Mary Cassatt, introduced the impressionists and pastel to her friends in Philadelphia and Washington, and thus to the USA.

During the 18th century the medium became fashionable for portrait painting, used in a mixed technique with gouache. Pastel is still sometimes combined with other materials in a mixed-media painting, but it is not easily compatible with oil paint.

Pastels have become popular in modern art due to the medium's broad range of bright colours.

Prominent and contemporary American artists who use the medium of pastel include Larry Blovits, Wende Caporale, Tim Gaydos, Daniel Greene, Wolf Kahn, Albert Handell, Judy Pelt, and Madlyn-Ann C. Woolwich.

Answer 2

I think that Edgard Degás was a great artist in pastel technique, his drawings of "dancers" are very beautifulls.

Answer 3

Marie Laurencin