A moustache is not for everyone. In fact, some women dislike them so much that they forbid the men they’re with to have one. In the media though, throughout the centuries, powerful and famous men emerged wearing these very obvious blocks of facial hair.

As all great poets before him, Buñuel rises from the ashes, covered in ashes in hopes of a new world. He attempts to force open the eyes, to slice them open if necessary, of the masses of society who are destroying themselves in their deluded institutions. Regardless of whether Buñuel’s aesthetic leans toward chaos and confusion, his art becomes a dynamic poetry alive on the screen.

Modernism’s reactionary stance against the thought of the Enlightenment lead to an upheaval of all societal constructs of the time. The influence of Modernism particularly spread in the early 20th century. The fascinating effect of this movement are significantly demonstrated in Freud’s psychoanalysis, Nietzschean philosophy, the art of Salvador Dali, as well as nearly every other aspect of culture surrounding this time period.