One particular feature of Polish culture, highlighting it in the eyes of the world, is the unusual melange of metaphysical searching and historical experience. This is also true of the visual arts. During the period of partition, Poles succeeded in preserving their identity only thanks to religion and culture. In a country deprived of its own state and torn into three partitions, art and poetry had specific tasks: maintaining the national memory, organizing the Polish imagination and preserving the national identity?