the painter confronts the natu of perceid realy.,darie the highly structured social and political framework is part and parcel of the meaning of the painting. rembrandt also portrays himself confronting the viewer and in relation to his cra, but rembrandt is entirely alone with his palette, ready to define himself in his characteristic thick impasto, the paint troweled on and worked with his fingers rath than with the brush. rembrandt, in his solitude, with his dect look, and with his coarse, visibly plied paint, asserts his presence, his selfness his individuality, as the matter for contemplation. in the story of western art, the 17th century, the age of baroque, began through much of europe in subjection to the ideals of the italian renaissance. by the century's end, new artistic tastes had developed-- boldly naturalistic... richly sensual... ambitiouslintellectual... passionate and profound... baroque artists had served a variety of masters. they had, as always, provided the images of power for absolute monarchs, whose subjects increasingly saw them as all too mortal. they provided relig

our fit nation athlete jami jamil natu is recovering from abdominal surgery to remove the last remnantsular cancer. we decided to send him to work out with our good friend and sports medicine expert, dr. jordan metzel. >> i will show you exercises to do a few times a week. the ars first one is a simple squat. spread your feet wider than shoulder width. but your arms here. keep your chest up like me. you're going to squat below the knees. get lower if you can, good man. with this one, watch me first. i am going to come down, do an easy jump and come right back down. the benefit of these is that you're both strengthening your muscles and starting to strengthen the heart. give me five more, see what happens to your heart and breathing as you start to go. number two exercise i am going to give you is an isometric. we introduce an exercise, the plank, great to exercise core muscles in the front and back of the spine. >> okay. >> get right into plank position like this. what's happening is the muscles in front and back of the spine are being worked, even though they're not moving. can you fee

wet creates interactive works of art that elaborately marry natu nature's elements to music.he show at the shopping mall, the americana at brand in california is just one example of their innovative work. >> what does innovation means? it means doing something new. to do something new it means having to practice something you haven't done before. innovation means learning. what we work very diligently at wet at is creating a learning environment so people want to learn. >> and that learning starts on day one when someone joins the wet team. every employee goes through an intense two-week immersion program. no matter if you're starting as a reseptember nift or head of the robotics team, during the two weeks you rotate through every stage of the development from the model shop to fountain maintenance to the machine shop. not only does this help new employees understand all aspect os testify company, it helps them understand the people they're working with. >> when they graduate from that immersion, they're collegial with all the people all oif the country, they know where to go

the high country to the sure that there is real irony interstate 70 was an70 wasin itself remotely natuit was an artificial intrusion. it would take extremely heavy-handed modifications of the landscape to shoehorn this highway. the interstate highways have all sorts of design specifications as to how wide the shoulder had to be, the curves couldn't be too sharp. there were utterly building the highway and the high country so it required a doing things like blasting off the mountainside and bandaged up to keep the rocks from crashing down on the highway below and it required relocating the river channels. the most dramatic artificial truth of all undercutting the continental divide at exactly as they had dreamt of doing. the two eastbound lanes which are technically called the johnson title you can see they have since been built yet they would have been in 1979 but the interstate for all of its artificiality for all of its heavy-handed modifications in the landscape actually ended up enhancing the experience of nature. i 70 made it easier to access into slopes rivers in central colorado