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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.
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.
Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son, sometimes known as The Stroll (French: La Promenade) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Claude Monet from 1875. The Impressionist work depicts his wife Camille Monet and their son Jean Monet in the period from 1871 to 1877 while they were living in Argenteuil, capturing a moment on a stroll on a windy summer's day.
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 ...
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 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.
Alfred Sisley (/ ˈ s ɪ s l i /; French:; 30 October 1839 – 29 January 1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship.
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."