Meaning Of The Word Plein-air
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Plein-air Meaning
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What's The Definition Of Plein-air?
plein air in American English
noun: the open air, esp. the daylight of outdoors plein-air in American English designating, of, or in the manner of certain schools of French impressionist painting of the late 19th cent., engaged mainly in representing observed effects of outdoor light and atmosphere adjective: pertaining to a manner or style of painting developed chiefly in France in the mid-19th century, characterized by the representation of the luminous effects of natural light and atmosphere as contrasted with the artificial light and absence of the sense o plein-air in British English adjective: of or in the manner of various French 19th-century schools of painting, esp impressionism, concerned with the observation of light and atmosphere effects outdoors |
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