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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.
Many of Bazille's major works are examples of figure painting in which he placed the subject figure within a landscape painted en plein air. [ 1 ] Life and 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.
An example of his White Mountain subjects is Mount Lafayette in Winter. Hill acquired the technique of painting en plein air. These paintings in the field later served as the basis for larger finished works. In plein air means to “paint outdoors and directly from the landscape”, [5] which Hill incorporated into many of his paintings. Hill ...
In her book "Plein Air in Russian Painting of the 19th Century", art historian Olga Lyaskovskaya wrote that Levitan's March, like Vasily Polenov's Moscow Courtyard, could serve as an example of plein air painting. Lyaskovskaya praised the accuracy of the relations between sky, earth and trees, and the precision with which "the reflections in ...
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 ...
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.
In Europe, as John Ruskin said, [30] and Sir Kenneth Clark confirmed, landscape painting was the "chief artistic creation of the nineteenth century", and "the dominant art", with the result that in the following period people were "apt to assume that the appreciation of natural beauty and the painting of landscape is a normal and enduring part ...