Sentences with phrase «method of plein air painting»

Inspired by the flat East Anglian landscape with its big skies, Norfolk Broads and rivers, and by 17th century Dutch Realist painters such as Meindert Hobbema (1638 - 1709) and Jacob van Ruisdael (1628 - 82), Norwich School artists included amateurs as well as professionals, many of whom practised the avant - garde method of plein air painting.

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This must - see exhibition reassesses the work of the English painter and explores his method in extraordinary detail, comparing vibrant en plein air sketches, full - scale paintings and later mezzotint prints.

Thus, when he came to write his «Letters on Landscape Painting», Durand deftly sidelined Cole's mature but melodramatic style, and advocated instead a straightforward method of plein - air sketching shorn of most philosophical content.

For a review of traditional methods and styles, see: Plein - Air Painting in Ireland.

It was Monet, however, who adhered most closely to the practice of plein - air methods, continuing to refine his painterly techniques (even when plagued with failing eyesight) in his monumental series of water lily paintings completed in his garden at Giverny, until in death in 1926.

The early years of the 19th century witnessed the Golden Age of English landscape painting, led by Turner and Constable, and also the development of plein - air techniques by the Barbizon school, and later by Monet's style of French Impressionism - methods greatly facilitated by the invention of portable collapsible tin paint tubes in 1841, by American painter John Rand.

During his stay at the artists» colony, he took to landscape painting in the open air as he absorbed the ideas and plein - air methods of the Barbizon and Impressionist landscape school, all of which were high fashion at the time.

One of the many appealing qualities the series demonstrates is a resistance to that aspect of categorizing that can demote plein air painting from a method to a style.