Pop Art and Surrealism: Mundane Objects Gaining New Meanings The world was recovering after a devastating war, modernity was gaining speed, and all art seemed meaningless, pretentious, and dated.

the mustachioed visage of Surrealism, the dreamy, fantastical cultural movement that began bewitching Europe in the 1920s. Thanks to Gala, Salvador’s hallucinatory paintings and his pop-eyed ...

Tadeusz Kantor once said that there was no surrealism in Poland, because of the dominance of Catholicism. For years it seemed like there was also no pop art, because there was communism. But was that ...