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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.
It was executed en plein air in oil on canvas. It currently is in the collection of the Barnes Foundation of Philadelphia. [2] Monet bought the boat around 1873 soon after moving to Argenteuil. He described the boat as "a cabin made out of planks were I had just enough room to set up my easel."
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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.
Bigger Trees Near Warter or ou Peinture en Plein Air pour l'age Post-Photographique is a large landscape painting by British artist David Hockney.Measuring 460 by 1,220 centimetres or 180 by 480 inches, [2] it depicts a coppice near Warter, Pocklington in the East Riding of Yorkshire and is the largest painting Hockney has completed.
Sophia Laskaridou began painting before receiving any artistic education. At first she focused on landscapes, in part because she did not have the knowledge needed to depict figures. Her decision to paint en plein air was unusual in Greece at the time, particularly for a woman, since there was constant danger from thieves in the countryside. [3]
Hjerl Hede- An open-air museum in Denmark showing life from the early days until about 100 years ago. The Old Town (Den Gamle By)- An open-air museum in Denmark showing urban life. Jamtli – One of Sweden's largest and oldest regional open-air museums, in Östersund. fr:Musée de plein air de Villeneuve-d'Ascq
en bloc as a group. en garde "[be] on [your] guard". "On guard" is of course perfectly good English: the French spelling is used for the fencing term. en passant 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 ...