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plein-air painting Plein-air painting liberated art from the artificial world of studios by reflecting light and colours as observed in nature.
[2] Tucked deep into Montmartre was the garden of Monsieur Pere Foret, where Toulouse-Lautrec executed a series of pleasant plein-air paintings of Carmen Gaudin, the same red-head model who appears in The Laundress (1888).
Corot and fellow landscape artists working in the forest of Fontainebleau were important influences on the impressionists, not only in their commitment to plein-air painting, but also in their adoption of a brighter palette.
The Dutchman Johan Jongkind (1819-91) was virtually a Parisian, and though he did not practise plein-air painting, he was obsessed with representing in his works not what he knew about the subject, ...
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