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pleinairism

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English

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Etymology

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From en plein air +‎ -ism.

Noun

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pleinairism (uncountable)

  1. (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.
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