Monet and the Impressionists – Art Gallery of NSW Exhibition Opening Times and Dates

September 23rd, 2008 -- Posted in Art Gallery NSW | No Comments »

Monet and the Impressionists – Art Gallery of NSW Exhibition Opening Times and Dates:

A must see for this year the Monet and the Impressionists at the Art Gallery of NSW.

On loan from the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, home to one of the world’s finest and most famous collections of Impressionism.

Thirty of the finest paintings by the master of Impressionism, Claude Monet, will be exhibited in the company of his contemporaries including Cézanne, Manet, Degas, Pissarro, Renoir and Sisley impressionis paintings.

Contact Details:

Opening 11th October 2008

Monet and the Impressionists
Art Gallery of New South Wales Art Gallery Road
The Domain, NSW 2000
Telephone: 02 – 9225 1700
Fax: 02 – 9225 1701

Claude Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement’s philosophy of expressing one’s perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise.

Monet was literally the “boss” of impressionism movement in the history of art, because it was a painting he did in 1872, titled “Impression, Sunrise”, which had a baffled art critic pick out the word “impression” to describe, at the time, the relatively new art trend