This activity is depicted on the second card of a Floskaartjes (“FLOSS-kar-chiss”) deck, before 34 cards representing social roles. A “set” for doing this activity was placed beside a lunar map and an egg in the first shadow box by Joseph Cornell. In “The Primacy of Absorption,” Michael Fried points out a torn jacket in a painting of a person performing this activity. This activity is shown in a painting that John Everett Millais used to (*) advertise the company Pears. Manet painted teenage Léon Leenhoff doing this activity while holding a bowl. This activity symbolized impermanence in the homo bulla motif of 17th-century Dutch painting. Unlike a painting in which a house of cards is being built, another painting by the same artist shows a young man using a straw to do this action. For 10 points, Chardin painted a young man leaning out of a window while doing what action? ■END■
ANSWER: blowing bubbles [or blowing soap bubbles; accept making bubbles] (Life of Man is by Jan Steen.)
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