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Painters working with surrealistic and nonfigurative forms, members of the European School, played an important role in art life after 1945. Margit Anna's art, influenced by Imre Ámos, which started in the early 1930s, reached its peak by the late 1940s. A major figure of this period was a puppet which was always painted as a portrait in front of a neutral background. This motif is practically the symbol of her art. In a monograph (1971), Katalin S. Nagy writes that this motif first appeared in 1940 and was present in all periods of her art.
The puppet of 1947 has a big head and a frail body. It is a rag puppet which is at the mercy of other people, it symbolizes people humiliated by the horrorr of war. The head is a small sack pulled together at the mouth. The head, a rag-cushion tied together at the bottom is the motif of puppet heads that keeps returning. Its trunk and legs are also small sacks stuffed with rags or tow. It has an expressive, almost charming face of a woman. This is the princess of dreams and memories of the past.
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