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Botanical Art or Plein-Air Painting?
1 month ago | By Gurney Journey
Is there a difference between botanical art and plein-air painting?
While both may result in attractive images of plants, the botanical artist is more concerned with portraying individual specimens with a scientist's perspective, removing a plant from its context to understand the structure and exploring the beauty in that way. The plein-air artist pays attention to the whole living ensemble as influenced by light, air, atmosphere, spatial depth. It's possible to combine the two visual approaches-and the thought process behind them-to see both the forest and the trees.
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