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Fogg Will Present Talks on Painting

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Painters Ben Shahn and Robert Motherwell and art historians Meyer Shapiro and Oliver Larkin '18 will analyze contemporary painting Thursday at the Symposium on Modern Painting being sponsored by the Fogg Museum Fellowship for Modern Arts, it was announced yesterday.

Twenty-nine paintings by such artists as Picasso, Klee, Miro, and Marin, selected to illustrate the remarks of the speakers, will be placed on exhibition at the Fogg Museum from Thursday until June 7. The symposium is open to the public, it was also announced.

Art and Philosophy

Shahn and Motherwell will discuss, respectively, "Some Relationships of Art to Social Philosophy" and "The Rise of Abstract Art", while Schapiro and Larkin are to speak on "Counter Modernism, the Attacks on Modern Painting" and "A Continuing American Tradition."

Current exhibitions at Fogg include one of Bernini Bozzetti, and another on Southeast Asia.

Opening tomorrow is a showing of twentieth century drawing and water colors.

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