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plein-air
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plein-air (plān-âr`, Fr. plĕn-ĕr`) [Fr.,=open-air], term used for paintings or drawings made directly from nature and infused with a feeling of the open air. Painting outdoors is a relatively recent practice; the impressionists and the painters of the Barbizon school Barbizon school (bär'bĭzōN`, bär`bĭzŏn'), an informal school of French landscape painting that flourished c.
..... Click the link for more information.  made plein-air painting an important dimension of their landscape work.
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Landscape architecture (often mistakenly considered the handmaiden of architecture) is all ambience and therefore little understood in the confines of a museum, Curator Aaron Betsky made a smart move then in organizing an exhibition of five landscape projects en plein air, and not even in some artificially created zone.
REVELATORY LANDSCAPES by DEITZ, PAULA / The Architectural Review
At each end the hall extends onto terraces which adjoin the sunken levels of the restaurant and lobby spaces, so that in summer workers can eat or simply lounge en plein air.
Modest model worker by Van Cleef, Connie / The Architectural Review
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