How many fathers of Modern Art ARE there???

Tiziano Vecellio...died in 1576.

'When Titian grew old, his eyesight started to fail him. Instead of painting his subjects in great detail, and in the style of the other painters of Venice, he began to paint his sub-ject, with just a few strokes of the brush. His works at this time, did not rely on great detail, but instead, his brushstrokes portrayed his subjects, with an impression, or suggestion. The viewer's eye and brain, filled in the rest of what he, or she, was seeing. Because of his late use of this style, Titian is known centuries later, as the father of modern painting.'

(forgive the excessive commas - I was editing this for a text-to-speech program... text came from some kid's almanac.)

A similar thing could be said of Degas, who was really arguably a classical painter albeit with some innovative framing. In his work, the Milliner, his eyesight was failing and his details became slight.