van gogh grew up in the country in holland. he was a stranger in the unfamiliar landscape of the south of france, and this was another country. like many northern europeans, he imagined the mediterranean to be exotic, and that's what he made it. he painted its people and their agriculture in landscapes drawn not only from what he saw around him but from japanese prints and etchings by rembrandt. here, he said, he was seeking his japan. in other words, a world of the imagination. and here he found it. in his collection of japanese prints, van gogh saw a beautiful, sun-filled, harmonious world which he imposed on the landscapes of provence. the prints themselves gave him confidence to use color more brilliantly and in a more arbitrary way. yet unlike gauguin and bernard, he never really understood the implications of the prints in terms of surface and flatness. his surfaces are thick encrustations of paint, but they always refer, often vividly, to the quality and texture, shape and perspective, of what he painted. he painted hims

in 1887, he sold this painting to the art dealer theo van gogh, vincent's brother.wo artists were friends-- lautrec sketched vincent's portrait-- and van gogh shared lautrec's interest in subjects drawn from montmartre's public life. but lautrec's great early influence was the work of edgar degas. there's a wonderful anecdote about how, after dinner one evening, he took some friends for what he called a dessert and took them to a friend's apartment where he showed them a painting by degas. what degas stood for was a kind of sophisticated naturalism in painting. degas, in the 1870s, had used cut-off figures, steep angled perspectives, and other devices to give a dramatic sense of immediacy in a way of representing the modern world. lautrec borrowed those kinds of devices for his work. (narrator) the lessons degas offered in a work like in a café-- off-center compositions and cropped figures observed in the real world-- would emerge in lautrec's art. but he reached beyond the frontiers of naturalism and moved into more expressive territory. as he grew into his own sty

now, let's use the new van gogh filter.ng to be a beautiful impressionistic, painting. [ laughter ] nope, just missing an ear. all the van gogh filter does is take an ear away. incredibly lazy. incredibly lazy. [ applause ] this next one is a picture of a dog. interestingly, about 80% of instagram looks exactly like this. [ light laughter ] let's see what happens when we use the paris filter. [ laughter ] that's how french guys stay so thin. i like this one. [ applause ] here we go. we got a picture of a parking meter. let's use the shia labeouf filter. [ laughter ] that, my friends, it's art. now it's art. [ applause ] next up, we have three friends hanging out. okay. now, let's throw on the college brochure filter. [ laughter ] there you go. it makes it a little more diverse. [ applause ] i wonder what they would look like if they were studying abroad? there you go. [ laughter ] here's a picture of my friend rebecca from high school. and let's see what happens when we use the facebook filter. and she's engaged. [ laughter

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. >> ifill: on the newshour online right now: what would vincent van gogh or andy warhol think of today's selfies? we look at the connection between self portraits and the photos we take of ourselves, is it vanity or is it art? as part of our vice week series. plus, snowy weather is once again testing the northeast, you can test yourself with a quiz on this year's winter weather. also, find past conversations about two films honored at the academy awards last night: "12 years a slave" and the documentary "20 feet from stardom." all that and more is on our website, newshour.pbs.org. >> woodruff: and that's the newshour for tonight. on tuesday, we'll look at president obama's latest budget. plus, the latest from ukraine. i'm judy woodruff. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. we'll see you online and here tomorrow evening. for all of us here at the pbs newshour, thank you and goodnight. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> at bae systems, our pride and dedication show in everything we do; from electr

van gogh in january chinese patrol ships showing up in the james troll but the south china sea about eighty km off of borneo island. an area which beijing counts is the southernmost part of its territory and as you know before touching down here in france after that some of it may be. she seemed and rubbing elbows with his japanese south korean counterparts. disputed islands in the east china sea were no doubt on the menu in the corridors of that summit disputes as we see which witch which extend further south and by with china and malaysia. these. these horrible events in some way help to overcome. these differences. people accuse compete in the preheated to three tunes shoots. and do something else to say that it's reduced to two institutions in asia. because stuffing compared to just get an undefeated team from japan she reasons that remain tourists would distance. and with reason and asia i think it can help me to youtube to promote the debt cycle to rationing difficulty nation into some signs. actually it has been promoted to the other team in prison and shoes and pink. i think

2008, a group of armed and masked panthers hit this museum in zurich, making off with a monet, a van gogh degas and a cezanne. it was the largest art robbery in european history. the last of the paintings was recovered in april 2012 in a dramatic raid captured on videotape. a serbian swat team stormed this house to arrest the men accused of snatching the impressionist works. the cops took a van in for examination and found something hidden in the ceiling. when they pulled it out, they discovered it was cezanne's "boy in the red vest"-- estimated value, $113 million. but nailing a couple of panthers doesn't help the police nearly as much as they would like it to. if one of these guys gets caught, will he squeal? will he give evidence about the other people, his partners? >> glassey: no, there is an omerta between them. >> simon: the omerta really works. >> glassey: the omerta really works, and when we are speaking of the best teams, a lot of them are really friends. that means they grew up together. >> simon: still, since 2007, hundreds of arrests have been made, but those panthers just ke

if you look at the currents going all directions -- >> looks like a van gogh painting. >> it is.amera can do a better job than me zooming in, but it's spinning around right here. if the debris is caught here, it could go this way and some caught here or here. this will end up in a very large area. the fact that it is spread out is not that unusual. the good news is we will get an air and sea search coming up at 7:00 a.m. because the weather is much better today. >> i was reading with the search area and again it's about the beginning of fall there. the sun is moving in and they have 15 hours of daylight for i search now and in a couple of months, who knows how long they will be out there looking for this. nine hours. >> that's true. take another look at this. it doesn't matter. we have all of these earth-orbiting satellites. 22 miles in space above the equator. if that is trying to look at 45 degrees south, it is hitting it at a 45 degree angle. you can't even see the south pole. it's looking down like this rather than looking straight on. you love to have a satellite flying over