PLEIN AIR LANDSCAPES
Artists first began using watercolors for, among other reasons, to capture the general values and colors of an outdoor landscape. This technique is now known as "plein air" painting. Plein air paintings most often have a quick, loose style about them. They are often created as practice pieces and studies, but with a little bit of additional work plein air paintings can become works of art in their own regard.
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FAMOUS FSA-OWI PHOTOGRAPHERS
The Farm Security Administration (FSA) and the Office of War Information (OWI) employed eleven photographers from the start of the Great Depression until the end of the Second World War to captures portraits and landscapes of "common" men and women at work in America. The images that these photographers produced during this time became some of the most evocative and iconic pictures of American culture. For more information on the program, click here.