Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon Though the backbone of art was formed by academies that graduated classical artists, some of the most influential artists broke away from such academies to change the rules. Impressionists, led by Claude Monet, formed a group of artists originally rejected from the academies to paint in their own "objective reality." They painted art as sifted through their senses; taking into account the environment's affect on an object or placing the focus on …showed first 75 words of 1416 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1416 total…considered beautiful in previous art works. While his subject matter is important and thought provoking, it truly does not matter what the overall message of his art is. The real impact of Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon lies just in the fact that he painted a work to break all the previously laid out, classical rules. By redefining the rules of art by breaking each rule, Picasso succeeded in distinguishing himself from every other artist in history.