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in passing; term used in chess and in neurobiology ("synapse en passant.") En plein air en plein air lit. "in the open air"; particularly used to describe the act of painting outdoors. en pointe en pointe (in ballet) on tiptoe. Though used in French in this same context, it is not an expression as such.
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.
Effets de soir (also called effets de soir et de matin) [1] are the effects of light caused by the sunset, twilight, or darkness of the early evening or matins.They appear frequently in works by such painters as Vincent van Gogh, [2] Bernhard Fries, [1] Armand Guillaumin, [3] and Camille Corot.
The Temple of Literature is a series of courtyards, buildings and pavilions, the center of which houses the famed stone steles. These steles are placed on top of stone turtles , and are inscribed with the names of doctorate candidates successful at the Imperial examination .
Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901), known as Toulouse-Lautrec (French: [tuluz lotʁɛk]), was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of ...
The Practice of Diaspora received widely favorable reviews. [4] [5] In Modern Fiction Studies, Michelle Stephens wrote, "With The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism, Brent Edwards has changed the very landscape of transnational black studies, showing what we have lost by not developing a more multilingual approach to black cultural studies and ...
Early literary influences [ edit ] Having been exposed to erudite philosophical literature as a young boy under the tutelage of Isaco Garsin, his maternal grandfather, he continued to read and be influenced through his art studies by the writings of Nietzsche, Baudelaire , Carducci , Comte de Lautréamont , and others, and developed the belief ...
Paul Cézanne, 1900-1904, The Grounds of the Château Noir, oil on canvas, 90.7 x 71.4 cm, The National Gallery, London. The aim of the salon was to encourage the development of the fine arts, to serve as an outlet for young artists (of all nationalities), and a platform to broaden the dissemination of Impressionism and its extensions to a popular audience. [1]