en Plein Air

• Old-time Calendars would indicate the seasons

• The lived experience in the NorthEast indicates a kind of quick in-between, where the experience of Summer and Winter dominate

• History of plein-air — wintery Russian snow paintings, hot tropics of California, Hudson Valley painters, English painters of clouds

• plateau as the weather changes into monotony

• The value of observational painting

• The current stage of plein-air — where is it popular?

• Adaptations to en plein air

• Responses — operating from cars (James Gurney), indoors painting outdoors etc,

• The decline of plein air practice

• Romantic Plein air vs. Contemporary Plein air, traditional values vs. modern ones