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Palace of Art, also known as "Secession" headquarters of the Kraków Society of Friends of Fine Arts, in Kraków Old Town Young Poland (Polish: Młoda Polska [ˈmwɔ.da ˈpɔl.ska] ) was a modernist period in Polish visual arts, literature and music, covering roughly the years between 1890 and 1918. It was a result of strong aesthetic opposition to the earlier ideas of Positivism. Young Poland promoted trends of decadence, neo-romanticism, symbolism, Impressionism.
Many of the exhibitions were held at the Palace of Art, also known as "Secession" (Secesja), the headquarters of the Kraków Society of Friends of Fine Arts, in Kraków Old Town.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Young Poland” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.