Pastel on Sanded Board
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Pastel Paintings by Barbara Green |
Lotus Fine Art & Design, Inc. 33 Rock City Rd. Woodstock, NY 12498 845.679.2303 Lotuswoodstock@yahoo.com |
(with excerpts from "Shadows & Light" in American Artist, by Eunice Agar)
"In all of New York artist Barbara Green's paintings, there is a strong emphasis on value contrasts and rich but
subdued color applied to figural themes that are interpreted with a classical restraint...The surprise is her use
of pastel, a medium often associated with brightly colored, noncontroversial subjects. In contrast, Green uses
the medium to depict such somber subjects as the Inquisition and the Holocaust, as well as powerful images of
boxers in training or in moments of repose and commissioned portraits and figures in interiors.... Her charcoal
drawings are remarkable for their richness and subtlety, and their surface beauty is enhanced by her use of
top-quality paper....
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Green obtained her undergraduate training at New York University in New York
City, where she earned a degree in art education in 1964... She then spent two years at the Instituto Allende
in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where she studied printmaking with an emphasis on stone lithography and
etching and received her M.F.A. degree in 1974." Green has also studied at the National Academy of Design
and the Arts Students League of New York.
"Having reached a high level of maturity and achievement, her artwork is gaining serious recognition. Green's
Inquisition series was featured on public television, and her painting and drawings of fightrers were shown on
Television in a program called "Heroes", hosted by Joe Namath, and on HBO in photo montages displayed
during some of Tyson's championship fights. Her work is in the collecitons of the Skirball Museum, which is
affilitated with Hebrew Union College, nd the Big Fights, Inc., both in New York City, as well as in many private
collections, including those of the late Cus d'Amato and Francisco Moncion, a prominent New York City ballet
dancer."
"In all of New York artist Barbara Green's paintings, there is a strong emphasis on value contrasts and rich but
subdued color applied to figural themes that are interpreted with a classical restraint...The surprise is her use
of pastel, a medium often associated with brightly colored, noncontroversial subjects. In contrast, Green uses
the medium to depict such somber subjects as the Inquisition and the Holocaust, as well as powerful images of
boxers in training or in moments of repose and commissioned portraits and figures in interiors.... Her charcoal
drawings are remarkable for their richness and subtlety, and their surface beauty is enhanced by her use of
top-quality paper....
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Green obtained her undergraduate training at New York University in New York
City, where she earned a degree in art education in 1964... She then spent two years at the Instituto Allende
in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where she studied printmaking with an emphasis on stone lithography and
etching and received her M.F.A. degree in 1974." Green has also studied at the National Academy of Design
and the Arts Students League of New York.
"Having reached a high level of maturity and achievement, her artwork is gaining serious recognition. Green's
Inquisition series was featured on public television, and her painting and drawings of fightrers were shown on
Television in a program called "Heroes", hosted by Joe Namath, and on HBO in photo montages displayed
during some of Tyson's championship fights. Her work is in the collecitons of the Skirball Museum, which is
affilitated with Hebrew Union College, nd the Big Fights, Inc., both in New York City, as well as in many private
collections, including those of the late Cus d'Amato and Francisco Moncion, a prominent New York City ballet
dancer."
