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Why Gen Z artists are suddenly returning to anatomy, gesture and plein air painting in 2026

As for plein air painting, it's having a full-blown renaissance. A few years back, Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson told ...
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Who Was the First Artist to Work Outdoors? The Radical Origins of Plein Air Painting

In the 1780s, French painter Pierre Henri de Valenciennes produced a landscape of the Channel coast. To do so, he painted not from memory or from a sketch, but directly from the source—by stepping ...