open-air

Examples of open-air in the following topics:

• Art in Western Europe

  • Western Europe was particularly bountiful for archeological discoveries (especially southern France and northern Spain), with numerous caves and open-air sites containing spectacular parietal (cave art) and portable (small sculpture) artworks being found that are among the earliest undisputed examples of image making.
  • The Coa Valley (circa 15,000 BC), located in northeastern Portugal, along the Portuguese-Spanish border, is an open-air site home to numerous examples of Prehistoric rock carving.

• Modern Chinese Painting

  • Along with these developments in professional art circles, there was a proliferation of peasant art depicting everyday life in the rural areas on wall murals and in open-air painting exhibitions.

• Paleolithic Architecture

  • Other types of houses existed; these were more frequently campsites in caves or in the open air with little in the way of formal structure.

• Paleolithic Sculpture

  • Hundreds of these sculptures have been found both in open-air settlements and caves.

• Art in the Early Dynastic Period

  • Open-air temple buildings of the central government were constructed of wood or sandstone.

• Architecture of the New Kingdom

  • An ancient place of worship for the god Amun, it was part of the monumental city of Thebes.Today the complex is a vast open-air museum and the largest ancient religious site in the world.
  • The Precinct of Amun-Re, also referred to as the Temple of Amun, is the largest of the temples and the only one open to the public today.
  • An enormous pylon representing scenes of the great pharaoh's reign stood before one of the opening courts, with the royal palace at the left and a gigantic statue of the king looming up at the back.

• Impressionism

  • The Impressionists found that they could capture the momentary and transient effects of sunlight by painting en plein air.
  • By painting en plein air, they used spontaneity, sunlight, and color to capture the shifting conditions of a vista exposed to the natural elements.
  • Sisley was dedicated to painting landscape en plein air and never deviated into figure painting, like some of his fellow impressionists.
  • Claude Monet is considered the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the Impressionist philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air landscape painting.
  • In the late 1860s, through the practice of painting light and water en plein air, both artists discovered that the color of shadows is not brown or black, but the reflected color of the objects surrounding them, an effect today known as diffuse reflection.

• Architecture in the Greek High Classical Period

  • The architectural refinements perfected during the Late Classical period opened the doors of experimentation with how architecture could define space, an aspect that became the forefront of Hellenistic architecture.
  • When exposed to the air, Pentelic marble acquires a tan color that sets it apart from whiter forms of marble.

• Domestic Architecture in Modern Africa

  • With an advanced form of natural air conditioning, this building was designed to respond precisely to Harare's climate and needs, rather than import less suitable designs.

• Minoan Painting

  • Women wore short-sleeve dresses with flounced skirts whose bodices were open to the navel, allowing their breasts to be exposed.
  • Unlike the twisted perspective seen in Egyptian or Ancient Near Eastern works of art, these figures are shown in full profile, an element the adds to the air of liveliness.