At Washington Hall Gallery in Central City
by Virginia Unseld
Plein air painting is hot again in the art world. Painting en plein air was introduced and practiced by the French Impressionists in the 1800s, spurred by the availability for the first time of tins of readymade oil paints and portable easels. Artists were no longer tied to their studios to mix paint, so they began to venture outside to capture their impressions of the sun’s light on the landscape.
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