sea vessels and airship

With its factory, sea vessels and airship, Japanese artist Koga Harue's monumental painting The Sea (1929) seems to be a paean to technology. This was an intentional rebellion against what Koga and his colleagues disliked in European Surrealism. They thought that Breton and his followers were decadent in disengaging with modern progress, and proposed a '"scientific" Surrealism in Japan