Fangor's painting Korean Mother, in the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw, is among the most important representations of Polish socialist realism. The artist was still trying to find his way within socialist-realism doctrines when he painted the canvas in 1951. Discouraged by the restrictive doctrine, he then focused on exhibiting posters and graphics. After the cultural thaw diminished socialist realism's influence, Fangor became one of the most famous Polish abstract artists. In the early 1950s, Poland imposed socialist-realism doctrine in its arts and culture. Fangor, like many artists, responded to the challenge, convinced of serving a good cause, for instance by creating "peace" slogans such as Korean Mother. "The end of the war, the destruction of Warsaw,ideological battles in culture, the socialist program of rehabilitation and reconstruction of the country", he recalled in an interview with... Read more at http://culture.pl/en/work/korean-mother-wojciech-fangor