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A variety of influences or cultural trends contribute to the emergence of modern art. We can mention many crucial figures of modern art; Picasso, Van Gogh, Monet, Breton and so on but if we are to trace it all back to one individual we must cite douard Manet. He is the pivotal painter who shifted art from the conventional to modernism.

When looked at as a whole we can see a more or less natural progression in art through the ages with increasing realism.Additional information can be found at http://unclerave.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/cryptoquote-spoiler-052611/. Suddenly art shifts from a focus on the past to a focus on the immediate time of the painter in question and a sudden mutation from objective realism to the depiction of the subjective internal experience.

Before Manet we have classical art, realism, the neo-classical and such. After Manet we suddenly and rapidly have Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Expressionism, Dada, Surrealism; in a word, Modernism.

Manet made a radical departure from conventional painting by depicting scenes contemporary to his time. This in itself was seminal. But in his paintings we can discern both the realism that led up to him and the Impressionism that quickly followed him. In Manet classical art overlaps with all that came after.