SO awesome. This whole floor was devoted to 20th Century Belarussian artists. I had not heard of a single one of them.
I was standing right here when I realized that by looking at the dates on the pictures the story of modern Belarus would become evident.
To keep in mind:
18th c. Belarusian land annexed to the Russian Empire
1918 Independent Belarusian People’s Republic
1922 Eastern regions annexed to the USSR and western to Poland
1939 Western regions joined the USSR
1941–1945 Naxi occupation when Belarus lost 1/4 of its population in World War II
1991 Republic of Belarus.