Pardo goes BIG
For our French lesson of the day, consider the phrase “en plein air.” Translated, it means “out of doors.” But it was also a term used to describe the practice adopted by Impressionist artists of painting from start to finish outside.
Of course, there are always those who take en plein air to the extreme—like nineteenth-century British painter Stanhope Forbes, who was reportedly photographed painting during a gale,
