the fantastic art of beksinski zdzisław beksiński

Escher, Michelangelo, Piranesi, and Gaudí. Other artists trained in architecture include Bernini, M.C. While he lacked training as an artist, architects are renowned for their draughtsmanship, and art and architecture go hand in hand. Education and Formal Trainingīeksinski studied architecture at Kraków Polytechnic in 1947 and graduated in 1952. But even his digital work (not shown in the gallery) was a clumsy attempt at using the computer as his paintbrush to illustrate the same visions that he does so exquisitely in oils. His works don’t compete with each other ideologically but reinforce each other. While it’s not as dark directly, his abstract work always seems to deconstruct the form like sickness or decay. The fantastic period’s central focus is an apocalyptic emotion, but his abstract work also seems marked by this sensation. The work’s main salient feature is dystopian surrealism or doomsday scenarios. Rather, his entire body of work has a purity of vision, as do the individual paintings. Both of those just mentioned certainly have a purity of vision. A contrast would be “The Garden of Earthly delights” by Hieronymus Bosch or “The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke” by Richard Dadd– where much of the painting demands attention.īut a hierarchy of content certainly isn’t what I’m referring to when I’m speaking of purity of vision in Beksiński’s work. His images are elegant: while there are many details in the images, there tends only to be one central focus and then distant secondary or tertiary focal points.

Beksiński’s surrealist vision rivals the greats in art history.

He’s a cornerstone of contemporary fantastic art, dark surrealism, or “horror art”– depending upon who is describing the work. I always find myself returning to Beksiński for inspiration. He survived World War II and continued to draw provocative pieces during Communist times in Poland, when many forms of art were frowned upon, especially by the Soviet Government. He studied architecture at the Krakow University of Technology. Zdzisław Beksiński was born on 24 February 1929 in Sanok, southern Poland. The second period contained more abstract style, with the main features of formalism.

The first period of work is generally considered to contain expressionistic color, with a strong style of “utopian realism” and surreal architecture, like a doomsday scenario. His creations were made mainly in two periods. Beksiński did his paintings and drawings in what he called either a ‘Baroque’ or a ‘Gothic’ manner. Zdzisław Beksiński was a Polish painter, photographer and sculptor, specializing in the field of dystopian surrealism.

The fantastic art of beksinski zdzisław beksiński