{"id":630435,"date":"2026-09-20T11:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T11:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/630435\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T11:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T11:44:11","slug":"the-plein-air-artist-painting-his-way-through-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/630435\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;plein air&#8217; artist painting his way through Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the past two summers, Montreal contemporary realist painter Alex Kasyan has ventured out of the confines of his studio and into the streets, oil paints and brushes in hand. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A tripod holds his box of paints, a blank canvas clipped to the top of the lid. Over the course of several hours, Kasyan replicates an iconic landscape \u2014 piquing the interest of passersby who he says so rarely see full-time artists in the flesh.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/9999-city-kasyan-9167_304979265.jpg\" alt=\"Man paints at easel outdoors while woman standing beside him watches &#10;\" class=\"wp-image-100283553\"  \/>Francine Bidal, herself a painter, is one of many to stop and speak with Kasyan as he works on a painting near Montreal\u2019s Atwater Market. Allen McInnis \/ Montreal Gazette<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His realistic \u201cplein air\u201d paintings \u2014 and the trompe l\u2019oeil photos of them replacing the part of the landscape he recreated \u2014 have also attracted the attention of Montrealers online, racking up likes on Reddit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the past two summers, Montreal contemporary realist painter Alex Kasyan has ventured out of the confines of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-630435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}