Art in Lazienki Park

This series of posters was quite whimsical and at the same time thought provoking. I do not know much about the history of Polish art, much less this sort of art.

Poland is burdened with a difficult past: only just reconstituted as a proper country after the First World War, it suffered the horrors of Nazi invasion before being confined for decades behind communism's Iron Curtain, only to emerge as an early pariah of European migration fears.

Against such a backdrop, you could expect Polish contemporary art to be a bleak affair of darkly cubist, Soviet imagery, and accounts of lifelong hard knocks.

But isn't it true that art plays an important part in the survival of the nation? The imaginary helped the people endure the gray and difficult reality that surrounded them. Maybe that is where this is coming from.

And maybe it is just that at their core, Poles have a very funny sense of humor, and no amount of bad luck, bad occupations, and bad people can knowck it out of them.