| Nancy Dean Mercury paints in the "plein-air" method, which originated in the 15th century and was later refined by the 19th-century Impressionists. Such celebrated American artists as John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, and William Merritt Chase adopted the method and helped spread its basic tenets, which require the artist to capture the composition, color harmonies, and value structure of the painting "at the first", creating a sense of directness, immediacy, and (showing 500 of 2030 characters). |
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