pleinairism
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From en plein air + -ism.
Noun
[edit]pleinairism (uncountable)
- (art) The practice of painting outdoors, in the open.
- 2017, Kathleen A. Foster, American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent, page 214:
- Some Americans may have concluded that such passionate pleinairism was unsustainable; it may have seemed too chaotic, insubstantial, repetitious, or ugly.