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En plein air painter on the Côte d'Argent in Hourtin, France. En plein air (pronounced [ɑ̃ plɛ.n‿ɛʁ]; French for 'outdoors'), or plein-air [1] painting, is the act of painting outdoors. This method contrasts with studio painting or academic rules that might create a predetermined look.
Mary Agnes plein-air painting at Carmel, Carmel Beach, California, circa 1920s. "The two Yerkes oils in particular, [Crocker Art Museum], are wonderful examples of California Impressionism, and by a woman, which makes them even more rare." [11] – Scott A. Shields, Ph.D., Associate Director / Chief Curator, Crocker Art Museum.
En plein air painting is an artistic style involving painting outdoors, with the landscape or subject directly in front of the artist. [2] [3] [16] This technique is used primarily by Impressionists. [3] However, abstract impression deviates from traditional en plain air artworks [2] as the level of exactness or realism in the painting is seen ...
Mary Agnes Yerkes, California Impressionist painter, (1886–1989)."Plein-Air painting at Carmel’’, Carmel Beach, CA, circa 1920s. The terms California Impressionism and California Plein-Air Painting describe the large movement of 20th century artists who worked out of doors (en plein air), directly from nature in California, United States.
Painting en plein air style, the Highwaymen artists "eschew[ed] any formal color theory and rel[ied] on instinct and intuition to depict their steady stream of beaches, palm trees and Everglades scenes. Organic colors were not their main focus; they wanted to wow buyers with burnt-orange Florida skies or unnaturally florescent clouds."
Women in the Garden (French: Femmes au jardin) is an oil painting begun in 1866 by French artist Claude Monet when he was 26. It is a large work painted en plein air; the size of the canvas necessitated Monet painting its upper half with the canvas lowered into a trench he had dug, so that he could maintain a single point of view for the entire work.
The painting was made quickly, en plein air, on an easel at the beach, with the wind whipping up sand and nearly blowing Van Gogh off his feet. He managed to scrape most of the wind-blown sand off the thick wet painting, but some remains.
The Wright Flyer: the first sustained flight with a powered, controlled, heavier than air aircraft (1903). The world's first movie poster, for the comedy L'Arroseur Arrosé, 1895. The Belle Époque was an era of great scientific and technological advancement in Europe and the world in general.