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Maurice Pasternak Art

Belgian, b. 1946

Maurice Pasternak was born in Brussels in 1946 and pursued the study of art from 1963–68 at ENSAV, Belgium’s national academy for the training of students with superior artistic ability. Since graduation, he has engaged in the creation of drawings, pastels and mezzotints. In addition, he served as the chief professor of art and the designer of the art curriculum at his alma mater from 1982. Since 1971, Pasternak’s work has been awarded more than twenty international prizes at biennial competitions throughout Europe, Asia and the United States including the Prix Special De L’Edition at World Print Four in San Francisco and the Walker Prize at the Philadelphia Print Club. He has had numerous solo exhibitions on various continents and his work is included in museums in Japan, Taiwan, Belgium, Poland and the United States. In 1994, Pasternak had a solo exhibition at the Musee des Beaux-Arts de Mons in Belgium and was selected for inclusion in Intergrafica `94 – World Award Winners Gallery in Katowice, Poland. He was a guiding force in the 1994 Belgium-Japan Print Exchange Exhibition.

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Artist: Maurice Pasternak
Attraction No. 5
Attraction No. 5

Attraction No. 5

By Maurice Pasternak

Located in Palm Springs, CA

Pasternak is an acknowledged master of the mezzotint technique, and many of his prints feature his characters in ambiguous or surreal distorted complositions. One of his prints was f...

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1990s Contemporary Maurice Pasternak Art

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Parabole 2 (Sunshine streams through clouds and trees as three men observe)
Parabole 2 (Sunshine streams through clouds and trees as three men observe)

Parabole 2 (Sunshine streams through clouds and trees as three men observe)

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Maurice Pasternak has created a surreal landscape that includes traditional images of a sun-filled sky, dark shadows cast on water and through leafy trees all under the guise of thre...

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Late 20th Century Surrealist Maurice Pasternak Art

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Personne Seule Etendue, Mezzotint Print, Surrealist, Late 20th Century
Personne Seule Etendue, Mezzotint Print, Surrealist, Late 20th Century

Personne Seule Etendue, Mezzotint Print, Surrealist, Late 20th Century

By Maurice Pasternak

Located in New Orleans, LA

Maurice Pasternak's imagery is not organized or presented in a way that makes literal sense. His figures and landscapes have mysterious drama that's open to individual interpretatio...

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Late 20th Century Surrealist Maurice Pasternak Art

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Maurice Pasternak usually creates surreal landscapes that include traditional male images along a canal. However, this traditional imagery is not organized or presented in a way that...

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Late 20th Century Surrealist Maurice Pasternak Art

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Mezzotint

Looking Up (left profile of  a man looking toward the heavens)
Looking Up (left profile of  a man looking toward the heavens)

Looking Up (left profile of a man looking toward the heavens)

By Maurice Pasternak

Located in New Orleans, LA

Maurice Pasternak has created a surreal landscape that includes several spirit-like creatures seeming to wander in an unknown landscape He moves images around on the paper to create ...

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Late 20th Century Surrealist Maurice Pasternak Art

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Mezzotint

Profils Sous Angle 2
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Located in Palm Springs, CA

Edition of 80. Signed, titled and numbered in pencil. Pasternak's work was featured o on the title page of Carol Wax's masterful book "The History of the Mezzotint". Pasternak has b...

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Personnes Etendues and Arbe (People seek land by tree)
Personnes Etendues and Arbe (People seek land by tree)

Personnes Etendues and Arbe (People seek land by tree)

By Maurice Pasternak

Located in New Orleans, LA

Maurice Pasternak has created a surreal landscape that includes several spirit-like creatures seeming to wander in an unknown terrain. He moves images around on the paper to create a...

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Mezzotint

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Chute I (the fall of ethereal creatures wandering in a hellish landscape)

Chute I (the fall of ethereal creatures wandering in a hellish landscape)

By Maurice Pasternak

Located in New Orleans, LA

Maurice Pasternak has created a surreal landscape that includes several spirit-like creatures seeming to wander in an unknown landscape He moves images around on the paper to create ...

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Early 2000s Surrealist Maurice Pasternak Art

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Surrealist Mezzotint: Man with Outstretched Arms, #59/150

By Maurice Pasternak

Located in New Orleans, LA

Maurice Pasternak has created a portrait of his signature figure with outstretched arms. He moves images around on the paper to create a sense of mystery and drama. This impression ...

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Late 20th Century Surrealist Maurice Pasternak Art

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Mezzotint

Profils Horizontaux (20 men seated in a church, a hall, union or political?)
Profils Horizontaux (20 men seated in a church, a hall, union or political?)

Profils Horizontaux (20 men seated in a church, a hall, union or political?)

By Maurice Pasternak

Located in New Orleans, LA

Viewers are always curious about this image. I count 20 people seated -- all men. Why? Three of the men are looking over their shoulders toward the back. Are they impatient to see late arrivers? The seating seems to be pew like. Pasternak, like most artists, wants the viewer to bring their own interpretation to the image and is most circumspect to give an explanation. A church, a union hall, a political meeting -- which is it? The mood seems to be one of anxiety rather than celebration. The artist did answer why all men. He says that "he likes to create the tension of the image on the page. Putting women and men together...

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Late 20th Century Surrealist Maurice Pasternak Art

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Mezzotint

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