Impressionism
Just before his death, Claude Monet wrote: "I'm still sorry to have been the cause of the name given to this group, most of whom were not in the least bit impressionistic". Starting with this paradox - an ensemble that saw itself as a coherent group, while affirming artistic individuality as the ultimate goal - the author, Nathalia Brodskaïa, explores the contradictions of late nineteenth-century art. Was it not Manet who evoked the definitive formula: "I paint what I see and not what others want to see" ? There would be a long way to go before the world recognised the difference between traditional, academic art and the birth of modern, non-figurative painting. After analysing the essential elements of the Impressionist movement, Nathalia Brodskaïa pursues, across the oeuvre of each of the main players, the search for "that conviction they had, of justice in their principles and value in their art". From this assertion of difference, modern painting was born.
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Nathalia Brodskaïa
**Nathalia Brodskaïa** est conservatrice au **musée de l’Ermitage** à Saint-Pétersbourg depuis 1961. Spécialiste reconnue de la peinture française du début du XXe siècle et de l’art moderne suisse, elle a publié de nombreuses monographies sur des artistes majeurs comme **Rousseau**, **Renoir**, **Derain**, **Vlaminck** et **Van Dongen**, ainsi que des ouvrages sur les Fauves et l’art naïf. Son expertise et son accès privilégié aux collections de l’Ermitage font de ses analyses des références pour les amateurs et les chercheurs.
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