Sedona Arizona USA About Blog Painter Michael Chesley Johnson explores the
world of plein air painting, offering tips, suggestions, research, plus some great paintings!
Sullivan Goss presents a historic
exhibition of plein air paintings by Orpha Klinker and contemporary photographs by Bill Dewey documenting the history of California architectural landmarks.
Over the past 50 years, American painter Lois Dodd (born 1927) has been recording the quieter moments of everyday life on New York's Lower East Side and in mid-coast Maine, infusing the modernist
tradition of plein air painting with Shaker - like qualities of modesty, airiness and quiet elegance.
In his landscape paintings, Hobbema is noted above all for his mastery of woods and hedges, mills and pools: a mastery he developed during long periods
of plein air painting in Guelders or on the Dutch Westphalian border.
The region's distinctive light, color and atmosphere not only rewarded her sensitivity to the natural world, but also connected her work to a long
history of plein air painting.
Alfred Sisley, the «forgotton Impressionist», was - like his friends Claude Monet (1840 - 1926), Auguste Renoir (1841 - 1919) and Camille Pissarro (1830 - 1903)- a
devotee of plein air painting, which facilitated the capture of the «fleeting moment» of light and colour.
Famous schools
of plein air painting include: the Barbizon School (1830 - 75); French Impressionism (1873 - 85); the Heidelberg School of Australian Impressionism (1886 - 1900); and the Russian Wanderers (Itinerants)(c.1865 - 1900).
Playing with the concept and
process of plein air painting, Grau traversed the Madison landscape not to recreate specific scenes with pigment on canvas, but to identify existing instances of monochromatic abstraction.
Kreimer wrestles with
questions of plein air painting's relevance in an art world obsessed with the new, and explores ways that art can engage the visual, the political, and the social.
This series draws from the historical
genre of Plein air painting practiced by such icons as Claude Monet, Camille Pissaro and Pierre - August Renoir who were driven by the transference of time, space, movement and essence of place within painting.
The sweeping views of the dreamy surrounding landscape and villages that have caused Civita Castellana to become an
epicenter of plein air painting for more than 300 years have now served as Hershberg's source of inspiration for the works in this new show.
Most recently Nancy was recognized as a Plein Air Master by M. Stephen Doherty (Editor of Plein Air Magazine) in his 2017 book «The
Art of Plein Air Painting: An Essential Guide to Materials, Concepts and Techniques for Painting Outdoors.»
Hoppin writes that the «unconventional works emphasize expressive form and brushwork over changes in light effects, weather, and time of day, the more traditional
concerns of plein air painting.
To educate artists and the general public about the artistry and traditions
of plein air painting through workshops, exhibitions and public programs.
The erotically charged late work of Pablo Picasso is juxtaposed in a separate room with David Hockney's striking cycle of the four seasons, representing the
poetry of plein air painting.
Pissarro was, like Claude Monet (1840 - 1926), Alfred Sisley (1839 - 99) and to a lesser extent Renoir (1841 - 1919), a devoted
adherent of plein air painting, especially country landscapes with an everyday humble theme.
Trained in Europe, where he learned about the new artistic techniques being introduced by Impressionist painters in France and elsewhere, he returned to Australia in 1885 and became a
pioneer of plein air painting in the countryside east of Melbourne around Box Hill and Heidelberg.
Sedona Arizona USA About Blog Painter Michael Chesley Johnson explores the
world of plein air painting, offering tips, suggestions, research, plus some great paintings!
Alex Katz's
exhibition of plein air paintings is currently on display at the Serpentine Gallery, and at the Sackler and exhibition of Etel Adnan's paintings, drawings, poetry, film and tapestry is on show.
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.
Grau's work is grounded in the
history of plein air painting, an in - situ practice of landscape painting based on direct observation that was initiated by artists such as Claude Monet, Pierre - Auguste Renoir, and Camille Pissarro in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
An exhibition
of his plein air paintings is up at Queens Park Railway Club in Glasgow.
Sedona Arizona USA About Blog Painter Michael Chesley Johnson explores the world
of plein air painting, offering tips, suggestions, research, plus some great paintings!
Sedona Arizona USA About Blog Painter Michael Chesley Johnson explores the world
of plein air painting, offering tips, suggestions, research, plus some great paintings!