Word: plein
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boudin introduced him to the idea of painting direct from the motif, en plein air. Painters like Constable and Turner had done this before but in watercolor; Courbet had done parts of his canvases on the scene and finished them in the studio. But the invention of ready-mixed oil paints in tubes made it possible for Boudin, and Monet after him, to carry through an entire painting in this way. Boudin's influence on his incomparably more gifted disciple was strong, and it can be seen as late as 1870 in the pearly sky, sand...