{"id":4055,"date":"2017-07-05T14:36:24","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T18:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sellingdelawarehomes.com\/delaware-real-estate\/?p=4055"},"modified":"2017-08-30T10:21:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T14:21:20","slug":"why-we-live-here-plein-air-lewes-delaware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sellingdelawarehomes.com\/delaware-real-estate\/why-we-live-here-plein-air-lewes-delaware\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Live Here . . . Plein Air ~ Lewes, Delaware"},"content":{"rendered":"

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En plein air\u00a0or outdoor\u00a0landscape painting\u00a0began with the\u00a0Romantics 1789-1830 whose search for authenticity bestowed particular value to spontaneous\u00a0sketching\u00a0from nature.\u00a0 Plein air work was encouraged and facilitated not only by its freedom from studio rents, but also by the invention of the metal tube in which slow drying oil paint could be stored almost indefinitely.<\/p>\n

Our little town of Lewes, Delaware, coined the First Town in the First State, provides some of the loveliest scenes to paint en plain air, including the Lewes and Rehoboth Canal, Lewes Beach, the Great Marsh Preserve, 2nd Street in downtown Lewes and the Cape Henlopen State Park, to name a few.<\/p>\n

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The high point of plein air art came with the emergence of\u00a0Impressionism, the world famous art movement named after the picture\u00a0Impression, Sunrise<\/i> in 1873 by\u00a0Claude Monet. Other leading champions of\u00a0Impressionist landscape painting\u00a0included\u00a0artists such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley and continued with Vincent Van Gogh.<\/p>\n

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