Zdzislaw Beksinski lived in the XX – XXI cent., a remarkable figure of Polish Surrealism and Magic Realism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
Zdislaw Beksinski is a Polish surrealist painter you’ve probably never heard of. Read on to find out more about the artist who painted many dystopian surrealist paintings.
Zdzislaw Beksinski was a Polish artist best known for his surreal dystopian imagery. View Zdzisław Beksiński’s 640 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available paintings, works on paper, and photographs for sale and learn about the artist.
“In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we know are doomed to perish– thus, his paintings manage to evoke at once the process of decay and the ongoing struggle for life. They hold within them a secret poetry, stained with blood and rust.”
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.
Biography of Beksinski Zdzisław Beksiński, born in 1929 in the quaint town of Sanok, Poland, was a true artistic polymath. He wore many hats throughout his life – he was a photographer, graphic artist, and painter. While his birth date is officially recorded as February 24th, Beksiński himself was known to playfully question its certainty. In the post-war years, he pursued architecture at ...