Museum Exhibit Class Displays Wartime Art

Poster propaganda of two wars and prints inspired by six wars are among the five exhibit problems solved and presented by the Museum Class in the second-floor galleries of Fogg Art Museum.

"The Humorous Side"--of this war--is the title of another display of current cartoon originals which have appeared in The New Yorker done by such artists as Garrett and Robert Day. Other problems are the "Showing of a Single Masterpiece," and "A Theme in Reproductions--The Apocalypse".

Modern Posters Shown

Modern war posters lack some artistic value, an explanatory booklet says, because subjects have been regulated by usually unartistic officials, but forceful symbolism makes them more striking than those of the last war when poster art was young.

Goya, Daumier, Homer, and Bellows are represented in "Prints of Six Wars," dating from the Thirty Years War, while a German, Otto Dix, found the most gruesome inspiration from the last war.