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Head Tutor of Visual and Environmental Studies and painting professor Paul Stopforth marvels at “the fact that people continue to have some kind of dialogue around the [Quincy mural], that it arouses such passions.” He offers another example of much-reviled art, that of Henry Moore, the sculptor whose nude is displayed outside Lamont Library...
...Stopforth tactfully admits that Moore’s “star has been somewhat eclipsed.” Maybe, he says, some of the art is “viewed differently because the artists who made the work have fallen out of favor...
...Making art requires a level of reflection,” Stopforth says...
...Stopforth says there hasn’t been time for a thoughtful movement to progress...
...There isn’t clearly a body of work directed to social and political issues,” Stopforth said. “But there certainly are individuals who are who are conscious of it and introduce aspects of it in their work...