Zdzisław Beksiński

Untitled

Zdzisław Beksiński

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Zdzisław Beksiński

The Kiss

Why untitled?

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Story II

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Zdzisław Beksiński

Zdzisław Beksiński was a polish painter, photographer and sculptor.Born date: 24 febraury 1929, Sanok, Poland Death: 21 febraury 2005, Varsavia, Poland Award: Order of Poland Returned Grandpa: Władysław Beksiński Greatgrandpa: Mateusz Beksiński Son: Tomasz Beksiński Wife: Zofia Beksińska

why untitled?

By choosing not to assign a title, the artist allows others to experience the artwork in a fresh way, as if each viewer is the first person to encounter this object. Most of the artworks in this exhibition have their title officially recorded as Untitled.

in this paint of Zdzisław Beksiński we can see i clear reference to the "kiss" of Klimt

The kiss

In this paint there's a clear reference to the famous paint, orinary from Klimt, that shows a moment of intimacity and passion between two subjects. But Zdzisław Beksiński brings it again with his own style (dystopian surrealism). Though down there we can see that it was the only case.

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Zdzisław Beksiński was born in the town of Sanok in the south of Poland in 1929. He survived the Second World War and continued to draw intriguing works of art during Communist times in Poland, when forms of creativity and art were frowned upon, especially by the Soviet government. Beksiński studied architecture in Kraków before returning to his home town of Sanok in the mid-1950s. He started off as a sculptor and photographer, always trying to capture something a little bit peculiar.

In the 1980s, Zdzisław Beksiński’s art began to achieve international success from France to the United States to Japan. By the 1990s, he was using computer technology as well, including digital photography and editing of photos to concoct new forms of surrealist modern art. Sadly, the late 1990s was a dark period and the beginning of the end of Zdzisław Beksiński. It started with the death of his wife, Zofia in 1998. Then in 1999, his son Tomasz committed suicide, an event from which Beksiński never truly recovered. Despite the darkness and horror of his art, Beksiński was known to be a positive man with a good sense of humour. After his son’s death, Beksiński was living in Warsaw, Poland’s capital, and was always trying to shy away from the media and public sphere.

Story II

The tragic death of Zdzisław BeksińskiBeksiński’s life reached a most brutal and melancholy end in 2005, when he was stabbed to death at his Warsaw apartment by a 19-year-old acquaintance from Wołomin, reportedly because he refused to lend the teenager money. His killer was later named as Robert Kupiec, the teenage son of Beksiński’s caretaker. Kupiec was proven guilty and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Beksiński was 75 years old when we was murdered.

"What matters is what appears in your soul, not what your eyes see and what you can name."

- Zdzisław Beksiński

photography

Beksiński made the transition from being a keen photographer to becoming a painter during the 1960s. He was using the photos he had taken to help draw. Photographs such as barren lands, sad faces, skin deforms and anxiety helped him plan and draw such odd surrealist paintings. He drew in black and white as well as colour, and he had no limits to his depths of reality. Bones, skulls and monsters formed the subject matter for an expressionism that represented pain, suffering, fear, depression and anxiety.

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