Editing En plein air (section)

== Advocates ==
[[File:Arthur Streeton Curlew Camp.jpg|thumb|[[Heidelberg School|Australian impressionist]] [[Arthur Streeton]] painting ''en plein air'', c. 1892]]
French impressionist painters such as [[Claude Monet]], [[Camille Pissarro]], [[Alfred Sisley]], and [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]] advocated ''plein air'' painting, and much of their work was done outdoors in the diffuse light of a large white umbrella. Claude Monet was an avid ''en plein air'' artist who deduced that to seize the closeness and likeness of an outside setting at a specific moment one had to be outside to do so rather than just paint an outside setting in their studio.<ref>Kleiner, F. S., ''Gardner's Art Through the Ages (15th ed.), Boston, Cengage Learning, 1915</ref> In the second half of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century in Russia, painters such as [[Vasily Polenov]], [[Isaac Levitan]], [[Valentin Serov]], [[Konstantin Korovin]] and [[I. E. Grabar]] were known for painting ''en plein air''.

In the late 19th century, ''plein air'' painting was not limited to the [[Old World]]. [[American Impressionism|American impressionists]] too, such as those of the [[Old Lyme]] school, were avid painters ''en plein air''. American impressionist painters noted for this style during this era included [[Guy Rose]], [[Robert William Wood]], Mary DeNeale Morgan, John Gamble, and [[Arthur Hill Gilbert]]. In Australia in the 1880s and 1890s, [[Arthur Streeton]], [[Frederick McCubbin]], [[Tom Roberts]] and other members of the [[Heidelberg School]] of Australian impressionism were also committed ''plein airists''. In Canada in the 1920s, the [[Group of Seven (artists)|Group of Seven]] and [[Tom Thomson]] are examples of ''en plein air'' advocates.