Zdzislaw Beksiński (1929-2005) was a Polish artist who painted pictures in the force of dystopian surrealism, often really dark and scary, but nevertheless strangely attractive, as a work of art can be attractive at first glance unpleasant, but undoubtedly talented.
Tomb
In his paintings you can easily find echoes of war, the widest range of negative emotions embodied in the form of various nightmarish images, but this has not prevented them from being recognized around the world as excellent examples of dystopian art.
Drought
However, Beksinski had every reason to paint such pictures rather than cheerful angels and cute kittens, because his life was not the easiest and happiest. His childhood years came at a very difficult time - the Second World War. In the Polish town of Sanok, where he was born, over 30% of the population were Jews, and the Nazis who occupied the country ruthlessly destroyed them. So death and war were familiar to Beksinski from childhood.
Lullaby
After the war, Beksinski studied at the Krakow University of Technology and worked as a bus designer, but he disliked this work. Art attracted him much more, he decided to become a surrealist painter and even, despite his lack of artistic education, he created paintings that were willingly bought. His first paintings were saturated in color scale, were distinguished by bright expressionist colors and detailed images.
Death
Subsequently, the colors became muted, the images more abstract and formalized.
One thing remained unchanged - the bleakness and anti-war orientation of his paintings. This is dystopia in its purest form, often very scary, which would quite do honor to other horror. But at the same time all his pictures are interesting and not banal, and certainly do not leave anyone indifferent, survive a variety of emotions: from delight to outright rejection.
A victim of experimentation
Beksinski himself said that he himself did not put any special meaning into his paintings and invited viewers to interpret them in their own way. But this is what is often interesting about his artwork: it is a graphic embodiment of our hidden fears and partly helps us to cope with them.
War
However, some of Beksiński's paintings vividly depict his childhood experiences. For example, the painting "War," which depicts a character wearing a Nazi helmet rendered in the color of the "Prussian blue" that appeared when Cyclone B, a terrible poison used by the Nazis to kill people in their death camps, was used.
"I want to paint like I could photograph nightmares," Beksinski said.
Hope
The real success came to Beksinski in the 1980s. But in his personal life he had to endure a lot of tragedies: his wife died of illness, and his son committed suicide. And the death of the artist was quite in the spirit of his paintings: over him appointed guardianship, and 20-year-old son of the guardian Robert for some reason stabbed the artist 17 times. Maybe it really was better to paint cheerful landscapes, and art is always projected onto the life of its creator - the case of Beksinski gives much food for thought on this topic.
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