THE BEST POLISH PAINTER

ZDZISLAW BEKSINSKI

1929-2005

ABOUT HIM

• Zdzislaw Beksinski was born in Poland in the town of Sanok near the Carpathians Mountains in 1929. After a childhood was spent during the Second World War, Beksinski went on to university where he studied architecture in Cracow. Subsequent to this education he spent several years as a construction site supervisor, a job he hated, frought with pressures and countless boring details. He would soon throw himself into the arts. In 1958, Beksinski began to gain critical praise for his photography, and later went on to drawing. His highly detailed drawings are often quite large, and may remind some of the works of Ernst Fuchs in their intricate, and nearly obsessive rendering.Beksinski eventually threw himself into painting with a passion, and worked constantly, always to the strains of classical music. He soon became the leading figure in contemporary Polish art.

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HIS FAMILY

• Beksinski and his family moved to Warsaw in 1977. The artist has had many exhibitions throughout his native Poland and Europe. He has rarely attended any of them.Bekinski's art hangs in the National Museums Warsaw, Sanok, Crakow, Poznan, and the Goteborgs Art Museum in Sweden.

PAINTI Paintings from the 1970s

• Beksinski began painting in oils on masonite around the year 1970. His ability to manipulate the effects of light quickly became a hallmark of his work, and can only be compared with the renown abilities of William Turner. Beksinski's paintings aremasterfully rendered, monumental enigmans. One thing they share is an aesthetic of beauty so potent that it overpowers any desperate nature of the given subject matter, as is similarly the case with Swiss artist, H.R. Giger. The paintings as a whole are wonderfully dark, and allow the viewer to interperet them as they will, as they will certainly get no help from this particular artist. As Magritte said: "The purpose of art is mystery."

EARLY WORKS AND DRAWING 1965-1968

All painting are untitled.

Fantastic period paintings1971-1994

All paintings are untitled.

Paintings and Computer Graphics from the 1990s

• Paintings and Computer Graphics from the 1990s Beksniski's paintings have grown less representational over the years and now seem almost abstract in nature. Color and texture and now the proncipal themes in themselves. Not so odd, as the artist began his career in the abstract realm. His recent computer art, however, continues the lineage of fantastic realism, and the artist never allows the technology to get in the way of that he is attempting to convey creatively.

COMPUTER GENERATED ARTWORK 1998

THE YOUNGEST PAINTINGS

All paintings are

Untitled.

DEATH

• Zdzislaw Beksinski was murdered on 24.2.2005 by two young boys. Court make investigation.

His flat past murder.

The end

• Author: Maciek Zboiński