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unusual facts about plein air



Édouard Sain

He first settled at Écouen, where he painted various rustic scenes in the plein air style, but experimented with other styles.

Ernest Lawson

He practiced plein air painting in southern France and at Moret-sur-Loing, where he met the English Impressionist Alfred Sisley.

Jack Cassinetto

Jack Thomas Cassinetto (born March 26, 1944; Sonora, California) is a prolific California plein air artist of the tonalism movement, painting primarily Northern California landscapes such as Lake Tahoe, Yosemite, the Gold Country, the Northern California Coast, and the American River and Sacramento River.

Karl Nordström

He spent a couple of years in Grez-sur-Loing, the site of an important colony of Scandinavian artists, practising his plein air painting in the strong French sunlight.

Kiva Koffeehouse

The area is popular with plein air painters, and the Kiva is a regular feature of the annual Escalante Canyons Art Festival's Everett Ruess Days.

Plenair

plein air (or pleinair), landscape paintings which are physically created "in the open air" rather than painted indoors based on sketches of the outdoors.


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Carl Larsson

After spending two summers in Barbizon, the refuge of the plein-air painters, he settled down with his Swedish painter colleagues in 1882 in Grez-sur-Loing, at a Scandinavian artists' colony outside Paris.

En plein air

In the second half of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century in Russia, painters such as Vasily Polenov, Isaac Levitan, Valentin Serov, Konstantin Korovin and I. E. Grabar were known for painting en plein air.

Fernand Lungren

Disappointed with the academic art that he observed, Lungren left his Paris studies and traveled to the town of Barbizon, South East of Paris, near Fontainebleau, and to the village of Grez-sur-Loing, where he became acquainted with artists who were practicing plein-air (outdoor) painting.

Tim Solliday

Using the pastel medium, he, Karl and Peter Seitz Adams went on plein-air trips to the local foothills, the Southland beaches, including trips to the ocean and the San Gabriel Mountains.

William Harold Dudley

His style was similar to that of the 'plein-air' painters of the Newlyn School, which included Alexander Stanhope Forbes and his wife Elizabeth Armstrong.

Zygmunt Waliszewski

He was a participant in the Capists' plein-air painting workshops in Cagnes, Valence, Cap Martin, and Avignon.