FSU Department of Art History

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#onthisday, we celebrate the birth of Édouard Manet, whose disregard for convention revolutionized French art. Rejected by the Paris Salon of 1863, he exhibited Déjeuner sur l’Herbe at the (more influential) Salon des Refusés. Borrowing subject matter, symbolism, and composition from the canon of Old Master paintings, Manet scandalized the status quo with his large enigmatic painting, described by one critic as “a nice sketch.” The Déjeuner launched 150 years of artistic homage and remains a centerpiece of the Musée d’Orsay.⁣⁣
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FSU Art History alumna Elizabeth Loeffelman has curated an exhibition at The State Archives of Florida on Bruce Mozert’s renowned underwater photography. Mozert designed waterproof housings for underwater photography and arranged people and props in “everyday” scenes that showed off the crystalline clarity of the springs. His photographs were at the center of Silver Springs’ tourism campaign for 45 years. Loeffelman has spent the last year at the Archives rehousing and digitizing over 700 negatives of Mozert’s work. Much of his work is now viewable on FloridaMemory.com.⁣
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“Underwater Innovations: The Florida Springs Photography of Bruce Mozert” is open through February 28, 2020. The R.A. Gray Building is located at 500 S. Bronough Street, Tallahassee, FL 32399.⁣
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More info: https://arthistory.fsu.edu/loeffelman-mozert/⁣
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Picture credits:⁣
1. Model posing in front of window underwater at Silver Springs, 1950s.⁣
2. Ginger Stanley using shears while man mows grass underwater at Silver Springs, 1955.⁣
3. Model sitting on a large hook underwater luring a fish at Silver Springs, 1950s.⁣
4. Elizabeth Loeffelman in The State Archives of Florida.

Instagram post 2216312031694750979_1664427769 $⁣⁣ If you have your Art History survey textbook, open it to the page on the Van Eyck brothers' Ghent Altarpiece— and tear it out! A three-year conservation project has uncovered 70% of the original lower panels that were previously obscured by varnish and a 16th-century overpainting job. The more human-like lamb face is a particularly interesting discovery that has come from this $2.4m conservation, which will continue on the upper panels in 2021.⁣ ⁣⁣ The altarpiece will be on display through mid-January at the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent.⁣⁣ ⁣ The entire work is available to view in 100 billion pixels of detail at closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be⁣ ⁣⁣ More info:⁣⁣ https://news.artnet.com/art-world/conservators-ghent-altarpiece-1741722\⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Pic: Adoration of the Mystic Lamb panel, detail. After and before.$

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