taking their cue from manet, younger artists began to paint aspects of modern city life.he city they observed was often an uncertain, anonymous place. it offered alienation as well as adventure. the cafe concerts were places of popular entertainment where people from different classes could mingle, their identities masked. edgar degas, in particular, explored places like these with an extraordinary variety of techniques, increasingly using pastel as a means of combining color with drawing. [woman singing in french] in the way he arranged his compositions, degas looked to the example of the japanese color print, whose customary viewpoints and cutoff compositions suggested ways of presenting his vision of the modern world. pierre auguste renoir painted a far more involved and festive vision of the era. the forms of the figures dissolved into a play of patches of warm and cool color, which suggest the fall of sunlight through the trees. by this focus on the surface of appearances, renoir treats the modern world as a spectacle, rather than creating the sort of moral narrative

from manet to picasso, from olympia to les demoiselles d'avignon, male avant-garde artists have staked their claims as ambitious modernists on the bodies of women. the major paintings of european modernism are surprisingly often paintings of the female nude. the power men enjoy make women available for artistic experimentation and colonization. in many ways, modern art rejected the humanist traditions of western art, but it never abandoned the female nude. instead, it used women's bodies for its most extreme innovations and fantasies. on their bodies, the implication of distanced creation is there for all to see. there is no such thing as objective art history. there are only the interpretations of art historians. these artists' work has been assessed in different ways. from courbet's country peasants to manet's new classes in the cities, from monet's realism of light to the visions of van gogh, the painters we've looked at seem to progressively move away from the real world, rejecting external appearances in favor of an inner, personal, imaginative truth. what we have seen is a crisis

my name is ross eld manet former board of appeals and moved a block away from valencia street. i want to thank you for your decision in december. the board of appeals around the process had really failed. there are potentially significant impacts on this process on the precious institution next door and although lip service had been paid for those concerns and no one came to the address of this body and you did. i think you did the right thing. you stuck to your guns and i would like you to continue to do that. >> good evening. my name is john levine. you can see the buildings that are cutoff. mine is 1823 landmark victoria. ian -- i am one of the most impacted by the 5th floor and the building blocking my views. i think i want to speak more to the question of preserving a neighborhood, a neighborhood which sort of defines what san francisco is and a cultural institution which does likewise. i think that this has to be a consideration taken into account when you look at decisions made as to why this building conforms to the marsh and fits in with historic district and to be a g

among them, a portrait by riverwalk -- a portrait by renoir, a manet seascape, lost for decades until now. some pitchers were bought legitimately by the father but some had been looted from jewish families. >> he has made clear to his custodian and to us to give back any artwork which does not belong to him. showss monet alone waterloo bridge in london. we should photograph of it to one of the world's leading art experts. he consulted the catalog of all known monets. >> this 1 -- you see? this is the painting. up until now, we had only knowledge of the black-and-white painting, but with the photograph, we have knowledge of it in color, which is very good. >> spiders crawling over the delicate canvases. in the damp and the darkness behind that door, some of these treasures were stored for .ecades now the task is to find out how much of those works he legitimately owned and how much was looted from others. >> it's very difficult at this point to find the one-time owners of most of these pieces of art. the survivors were children at the time. how should they remember precisely what a pai

was impressed with just how much mainstream american culture is so obsessed with these images with manetes and centuries of documentation how it has been defined against this fantasy of oriental type. my experience was similar to others it was surprising and not surprising it all brings true but we never really step out and reflect what that means. over the last 12 years to work with a variety of projects, learning more about asian american history to get more obsessed myself to collect and analyze over that period of time i was learning about that as i was watching the implications of this form of thinking the way these stereotypes have defined with americans think of themselves. the implication as suggested are scary. we have seen the erosion of civil liberties, excessive civilian collateral damage and other changes and is llama phobia of rise up not that it was not before but over the last decade that got me thinking about culture as a was watching that i was watching the movement material with racism here with u.s. foreign policy and that argument makes sense all the way back to amer

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what things will require more manet thans than expected, and what potentially embarrassing issues remainll finds a majority of u.s. voters say they want to see hillary rodham clinton run for president. 51% of those surveyed for the pew research poll said they would like to see the former secretary of state run in 2016. 43% said they hope she won't run. just 7% said they had no opinion on mrs. clinton. >>> israeli prime minister, netanyahu is expect today sign an agreement with governor brown to expands cooperation on such topics as water conservation, alternative energy, and cyber security. he is as slated to visit apple, and mountain view's whatsapp. >>> only on 2, marshawn lynch on winning the super bowl. tonight, the oakland native met withamber lee. he opened up about his passion away from football. >> reporter: frank, tonight, we spoke with the football player, where he attended high school, and where he still lives in the off-season. he is most comfortable back in oakland, where he was born and raised. he tells me, growing up in north oakland prepared him for life, both on and off

edouard manet depicted the essence of the short, violent suppression of the commune as french troopsd on french civilians-- killing thousands before they squashed the rebelli. the national soul-searching for the reasons behind the violence and chaos continued for decades. the middle class blamed the lower classes for abandoning patriotic virtues for decadence-- turning to alcoholism and prostitution and away from respect for authority. they saw decadence differently from the heights of montmartre. the third republic's succession of ineffectual and corrupt governments smacked of decadence and failed to address the social problems created by avaricious capitalism and industrialization. pollution and urban poverty plagued the capital until the end of the century. montmartre's artists found a new role for themselves. it was basically the concept of the independent artist, the bohemian artist, against the bourgeoisie, the establishment life, which had evolved since the early part of the 19th century. no longer did they have to kowtow to the establishment because thtablishment wasn't as po