Pastels are technically paintings... your coworker is an ignorant blowhard and needs to go back to art school.
Is a watercolor a painting? Is a fresco a painting? The answer is YES.
Pastels are exactly the same as the above.. just that the pigment is in a different medium.
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Both the International Association of Pastel Societies and The Pastel Journal magazine use the term painting for artworks created with pastel.
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Tell your coworker to
SUCK IT.