During the early 1920’s-30’s, Europe was recovering from WWI (1914-18). One group of artists who lived through the war felt that traditional ways of looking at the world were no longer valid. (Growing from the Dada Movement nonsense art, from a nonsense world exuberated by the nonsense killing of war). Wanting to make meaningful art, they turned inward to their own private realities, based on dreams, memories and feelings.
