Impressionism Online Teacher Resources

General Information

Art Explorer

Search for artworks and resources in the Art Institute of Chicago's Impressionist and post-Impressionist collection. You can save images and video clips, lesson plans, artist biographies, and more using the scrapbook tool. (All grades)
www.artic.edu/artexplorer

Artcyclopedia

This is a good place to send students who are starting research on an artist. Part portal, part collection of articles about famous paintings and painters, the Artcyclopedia site indexes more than a thousand museum- and art-related sites from around the world, providing access to the most authoritative sites on the Internet.
www.artcyclopedia.com

Biography.com

Read biographies of Impressionist artists like Degas, Monet and Renoir.
www.biography.com

Impressionniste.net

Learn about the Impressionist movement and its greatest painters.
www.impressionniste.net

North Carolina Museum of Art

Examine Impressionist paintings like Monet’s The Seine at Giverny, Morning Mists (1897).
www.ncartmuseum.org/artnc/lessonplans
www.ncartmuseum.org/artnc/object

Lesson Ideas

Research Unit on Impressionism

A lesson plan designed for French language and culture programs.
www.uwgb.edu

Impressionism & Beyond

Includes information about a Discovery Channel video about Impressionism. (Grades 9–12)
school.discovery.com

Cleveland Museum of Art

An Impressionism distance learning program, in English or French. (Grades 4–12)
www.clevelandart.org

Lesson Planet

Choose from more than 70 teacher-reviewed lessons plans. (All grades)
www.lessonplanet.com

Impressionism & Post-Impressionism

Ideas from the Art Institute of Chicago for teaching Impressionism. (All grades)
www.artic.edu

Edsitement

Explore Impressionism as an art movement. (Grades 9–12)
edsitement.neh.gov

Individual Artists

Impressionniste.net

Find information about Frederic Bazille, Gustave Caillebotte, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Armand Guillaumin, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley and Vincent van Gogh. In both French and English.
www.impressionniste.net

Frédéric Bazille

www.biography.com

Mary Cassatt

Lesson ideas

• Art Institute of Chicago (PDF) (Grade 5–12)
• National Gallery of Art (PDF) (All grades)
  
  

Paul Cézanne

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Edgar Degas

Lesson ideas

• National Gallery of Art (PDF)
  
  

Édouard Manet

Lesson ideas

• Cleveland Art Museum (All grades)
  
  

Claude Monet

Lesson ideas

• Princeton's Incredible Art Department (Elementary level)
• Albright Knox Art Gallery (All grades)
• Utah Education Network (All grades)
• www.kinderart.com (Grades 4–6)
• www.kinderart.com (Grades 6–8)
  
  

Berthe Morisot

Lesson ideas

• Art Institute of Chicago (Grades 4–12)
  
  

Camille Pissarro

Lesson ideas

• Ackland Art Museum (Grades K–3)
• eHow (Grades 9–12)
  
  

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

www.biography.com
Art Institute of Chicago
www.humanitiesweb.org

Alfred Sisley

Videos

Linnea in Monet's Garden
An animated film about a young girl who visits the painter Monet and looks at the actual places that inspired many of his works as they emerge in live action from the animation.

Monet and the Impressionists for Kids
The lives of the Impressionists along with lesson ideas and activities. By Carol Sabbeth.

Books

Linnea in Monet's Garden
This is a story of a little girl’s interest in Monet and her visit to Monet’s home.
Bjork, Christina and Anderson, Lena. Linnea in Monet’s Garden. Stockholm: R & S Books, 1987.

What Makes a Degas a Degas?

This book explores such art topics as style, composition, color and subject matter as they relate to 12 works by Degas.
Muhlberger, Richard. What Makes a Degas a Degas? New York: Viking/Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993.

What Makes a Monet a Monet?

This book explores such art topics as style, composition, color and subject matter as they relate to 12 works by Monet.
Muhlberger, Richard. What Makes a Monet a Monet? New York: Viking/Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993.

What Makes a Van Gogh a Van Gogh?

This book explores such art topics as style, composition, color and subject matter as they relate to 12 works by Van Gogh.
Muhlberger, Richard. What Makes a Van Gogh a Van Gogh? New York: Viking/ Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993.

The Impressionists: The Origin of Modern Painting

This book includes information on individual artists, list of key dates, historical background and nice illustrations.
Salvi, Francesco. The Impressionists: The Origin of Modern Painting. [Masters of Arts Series.] New York: Peter Bedrich Boales, 1994.

A Weekend With Renoir

This book briefly examines Renoir's life and influences and has many reproductions of his works.
Skira-Venturi, Rosabianca. A Weekend with Renoir. New York: Rizzoli, 1991.

A Weekend With Van Gogh

This book briefly examines Van Gogh's life and influences and has many reproductions of his works.
Skira-Venturi, Rosabianca. A Weekend with Van Gogh. New York: Rizzoli, 1993.

Monet

The Eyewitness Art series uses the same format for each artist with many reproductions, details and text.
Welton, Jude. Monet. [Eyewitness Art series.] London: D. Kindersley/The Musée Marmottan, Paris, 1992.

Impressionism

This book combines biography and artistic analysis with photos of selected works. It has many detailed reproductions.
Welton, Jude. Impressionism. [Eyewitness Art series.] New York: D. Kindersley/The Art Institute of Chicago, 1993.

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