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 ab

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among them, the painter edward manet. as soon as -- the french escort her to the three-mile limit of french waters. the french ship turns around and heads back as fast as she can. all of a sudden john winslow turns and starts towards the confederate. these two ships are extremely evenly matched. alabama has nine guns. kearsarge has eight. alabama 149 men. kearsarge 163 men. there is one advantage that some debate as to how much sims knew about this at the time. he got a real nasty education in the next few minutes. john winslow had taken anchor chain and put it on the side of his wooden hulled ship uncovered that chain with wooden planking. at a distance, it looks normal, but it has a makeshift iron armor on it. as the kearsarge comes in, showing her starboard side, the alabama turns and shows her starboard side and bubbles start is the steed of ships going around and around, chasing each other in concentric circles. the alabama opens fire and one of the trends of the fight will be the alabama will fire more often, but th

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 em