Learning

Monet: Impression Sunrise offers rich material for the twenty-first century learner.

Curriculum Connections

Centred around Claude Monet’s pioneering painting Impression, Soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise) 1872, this exhibition offers students an opportunity to examine the founding of an art movement—a defining moment in art history.

Monet: Impression Sunrise is perfectly suited to foster students’ critical and creative thinking skills with works by British and French landscape painters, including JMW Turner and Eugène Boudin, providing context for the development of Impressionism.

An in-depth study of Monet’s work, incorporating making and responding, will enable students to engage with key characteristics of Impressionism—depiction of light, exploration of colour, capturing a moment in time and painting outdoors en plein air.

Education group bookings

Booked groups of students and teachers can visit Monet: Impression Sunrise free of charge between 9–10am and 3–5pm on weekdays.

Monet: Impression Sunrise tours:

  • Special Exhibition Tour: an educator-led tour of the exhibition, 45 mins, free

Book here

All bookings are subject to availability, and as this is a smaller exhibition tours are 45 minutes in duration. Your group is welcome to self-guide through the space after the tour has taken place. If you would also like to visit our permanent collection of Australian Impressionism, please make a note in your booking request.

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Education resources

This education material is relevant to the study of Claude Monet and Impressionism and can be used to support comparative study between French and Australian Impressionism.

European Impressionism

NGA Permanent Collection:

NGA Past Exhibitions:

Masterpieces from Paris

Turner to Monet

Monet & Japan

Further Links
Musée Marmottan

Australian Impressionism

NGA Permanent Collection:

NGA Past Exhibitions:

Tom Roberts

McCubbin: Last Impressions 1907–17  

Capital & Country: The Federation years 1900 – 1914 

Share your learning with us

Learning is not a one-way street. If you do make use of these resources in your classroom we would like to know about it—get in touch via education@nga.gov.au