Short Plein Poems

Wife
paints commons
from deck...

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Artist
paints by pond
plein aire...

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decorative
   graffiti
en plein air...

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cultural flowering-
graffiti
en plein air...

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Four
seasons
in one day-
Vivaldi tunes
in....

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An
abstract
land art walk-
over two miles
long

Copacanana Promenade by Burle Marx...

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Rodin so expresive
tactile & creative
in The Old Courtesan* en plein air
his  'intense truth' laid ' bare'...

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Paul Gaugin simplicitiste
also an art theorist
He suggests painting from memory
of 'plein air' was uncomplimentary...

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Edwin Landseer
much admired stags&deer
Thus their virtues of courage&pride
in plein-air sketches he never did hide...

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In a warm meadow
Dripping, stroking, splattering
With passion he paints


By Robb A. Kopp
All Rights Reserved © MMX...

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A pioneer was Theodore Rousseau
dramatic skies he oft did show
Painting en plein-air
letting nature speak 'loud&claire'...

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Walter Howell Deverell
knew his Shakespeare so well
Loved to paint ' en plein air'
with 'kin' as models in all 'weather'...

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Artist Fred Cuming often did sketch
en plein air he would stretch
Into the country to escape
painting his local landscape...

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Eugene Boudin of Normandy
painted beach scenes or all to see
He had a very sketchy style
plein air spontaneity full of guile...

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Meadowsweet & wiilow herb
and forget-me-nots
Blue,white,green & yellow
Wild flowers in abundance
Pastel shade my garden plot...

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Albert Chevellier Taylor without a care
loved to paint en plein air
as an avid cricketer was no dope
his verses promoted Leversoap...

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La vie est rouge comme ton coeur
plein de passion et d'excitation
avec l'amour comme cerise sur le gâteau
et le bonheur est la crème glacée ......

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in with
en plein air
a low cloud
fog shroud..
incandescent light
transparent
                 timeless
observed
evolved;
the art of light
in hazy tones
elusive
         phenomena
in paint
          unfold...

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Shan't Tell* was munching pommes fritties**
When one dropped between her teat-tease
Linda Hand
Saw it land
And crushed it in little bitties


* Fr - Chantel, Chantelle
**Am = French fries  
    Br = chips ...

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Plein air and picturesque,free flowing
and festooned in tonal harmony

Hear me recite from my 4000+ PS anthology on youtube under my pen name ichthychiro..

catch my short forms @strandpoet on twitter...

read my amazon kindle guides...

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Summer's eve, sitting on the porch
The breeze soft upon my cheek
The crickets sing their song to me
My own Plein air symphony
Mesmerized by the sound they make
Sweet moments of quiet bliss

Barbara Gorelick
1/16/15
Night Creatures Contest...

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Originality enshrined
      .... shifting truths 
of nature
        a fresh sparkle 

timeless 
     perfection 
      in shadowed light 
uncompromising 
   love in mezzotinct
 surrounded 
& discerned
     in the particular 
    en plein air...

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Plein air jubilee
Dark dabs conceal your monkey
On a painting spree


By Robb A. Kopp
All Rights Reserved © MMX








Inpired by Georges-Pierre Seurat's "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte", 1884-1886, The Art Institute of Chicago....

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exhibiting
      a fusion
of light
        in impressionistic
 reflections 
 
extraordinaire,
'en plein air'

on repeat
over
     &over
again

morning
      noon
after noon

ever-changing
yet
never
     the same
scene 
      of
            the seine...

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