Why many Poles went abroad

What can connect contemporary Poles with Chopin? The painting by Marcin Maciejowski tells us that it may be ... an emigration experience. One of the most popular shots of Chopin according to Ary Scheffer, on Maciejowski's canvas - additionally simplified, reduced to gray, black and white, becomes a pretext for commenting on the current reality. It is only possible to decode the meaning with the knowledge of the image's title and the context of its creation. Without this knowledge, we could indifferently pass another repetition of a well-known image and not enter into a dialogue with it.