painting - En plein air
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Still made today, they remain a popular choice even for home use since they fold up to the size of a brief case and thus are easy to store. French Impressionist painters such painting Ship of Fools painting as Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir advocated en plein air painting, and much of their work was done outdoors, in the diffuse light provided by a large white umbrella. The popularity of painting en plein air increased in the 1870s with the introduction of paints in tubes (resembling modern toothpaste tubes).
Grabar were known for painting en plein air. American Impressionists, too, such as those of the Old Lyme school, were avid painters en plein air.
The Canadian Group of Seven and Tom Thomson are examples of plein air advocates. The popularity of outdoor painting has endured throughout the 20th century and into the 21st century. . The Newlyn School in England is considered another major proponent of the technique in the latter 19th century. It was during this period that the Box Easel , typically known as the French Box Easel, was invented.
En plein air (French pronunciation: ) is a French expression which means in the open air , and is particularly used to describe the act of painting outdoors. Artists have long painted outdoors, but in the mid-19th century working in natural light became particularly important to the Barbizon school and Impressionism. It is uncertain who developed it first, but these highly portable easels, with telescopic legs and built-in paint box and palette, made treks into the forest and up the hillsides less onerous.
American Impressionist painters noted for this style during this era included, Guy Rose, Robert William Wood, Mary Denil Morgan, John Gamble, and Arthur Hill Gilbert.
