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plein-air (plān-âr`, Fr. plĕn-ĕr`) [Fr.,=open-air], term used for paintings or drawings made directly from nature and infused with a feeling of the open air. Painting outdoors is a relatively recent practice; the impressionists and the painters of the Barbizon school Barbizon school (bär'bĭzōN`, bär`bĭzŏn'), an informal school of French landscape painting that flourished c. ..... Click the link for more information. made plein-air painting an important dimension of their landscape work. |
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For the Montage Resort & Spa in Laguna Beach, Cline put together a collection of works from the Plein-Air art movement, with 20 original oils by William Wendt, Edgar Payne and Jean Mannheim. The collection is valued at $30 million to $40 million, including a large number of California landscape plein-air paintings purchased with funds from student body fund-raisers in the `20s, `30s and `40s. Plein-air painting, once a central genre of modern art, has experienced such a precipitous decline in recent decades as to have practically disappeared. |
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