Known for her ceramics, visual artist former Olympic Swimmer Vera Székely reached her artistic fulfillment in textiles with her ephemeral installations of bent felt, her stretched canvas structures and “braced sails” exhibited throughout the world.
In the 1980s, Solidarity was a broad anti-authoritarian social movement, using methods of civil resistance to advance the causes of workers’ rights and social change.[7] Government attempted in the early 1980s to destroy the union through the imposition of martial law in Poland and the use of political repressions. Operating underground, with significant financial support from the Vatican and the United States,[8] the union survived and by the later 1980s had entered into negotiations with the government.
This poster features a dove of peace with holes in.
