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Exercise/S: Name: Lucero, Marey Kaye C. Subject: Art Appreciation Year & Section: Bscrim2 Section A Instructor: Mrs. Cristy May B. Salise

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EXERCISE/S:

NAME: Lucero, Marey Kaye C. SUBJECT: Art Appreciation

YEAR & SECTION: BSCrim2 Section A INSTRUCTOR: Mrs. Cristy May B. Salise

Instructions: Answer the following questions. No erasures!

Computer Aided Instruction Read and understand the whole essay ‘’Art Objects’’ by
Jeanette Winterson’s 1995, then answer the guide questions.

Guide Questions:

1. What is Flaneur that the author, Jeanette Winterson, mentioned in the first
paragraph? In what way is viewing an artwork like a flaneur or a stroller in the
street who walks with the crowd, adapts to life in big cities and maintains a
distance from all these?

According to Wikipedia, Flâneur is a French noun referring to a person,


literally meaning "stroller", "lounger", "saunterer", or "loafer", but with some
nuanced additional meaning. Viewing an artwork like a flaneur who walks with
the crowd adapts to life in big cities and maintains a distance from all of these in
a way that flaneur is observant and aware of the changes or even in small details
happening in his surroundings. A flaneur is originally a person who strolls around
a place with little to no other purpose but to wander around. This adapts to life in
big cities in a way that in a manner of how a flaneur walks and observe things will
help us to be aware and observant on things that our eyes can see and to teach
ourselves to understand deep meanings behind the context. In that way we will
not lose track of the changes happening in our environment and to not miss out
the significance of everything around us.

2. Most impressionists use relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, with an
emphasis on accurate depiction of light and its changing qualities in ordinary
subject matter. Using the above mentioned paintings, Olympia and Women in
Evening Dress explain how these works were depicted in such manner and
fashion.

Edouard Manet’s painting Olympia and Woman in Evening Dress


exemplify Manet’s use of seemingly improvised, facile brushstrokes that
emphasize the two-dimensionality of the canvas while simultaneously defining
form and space. From our vantage point, it is less Manet’s choice of subject
matter than the tension between surface and subject, in which the paint itself
threatens to dissolve into decorative patterns, that defines his work as
quintessentially Modern.

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