Plein-air painting
Painting outdoors in direct contact with the landscape, weather and changing light.
Example
Plein-air practice helped artists record temporary light effects, even when larger works were completed in the studio.
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Impressionism
A late nineteenth-century movement associated with visible brushwork, changing light and subjects drawn from modern...
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Broken colour
Separate touches of colour placed so the eye combines them rather than the painter fully mixing them on the palette.
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Oil on canvas
A painting made with oil-bound pigments on a woven textile support.
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Impasto
Paint applied thickly enough for brush or palette-knife marks to remain physically visible.
