the fantastic art of beksinski zdzisław beksiński

The art of Zdzislaw Beksinski is particularly interesting because by painting these grotesque, fantastic and surreal scenes in such amazing detail he drew attention to the limits of our visual perception it's my theory that when we are looking upon the portrayed scenery of representative artworks the largely subconscious process by which we evaluate their degree of realism and believability is not so much one of picking up upon the individual fine details blades of grass, eyelashes, dappled shadow etc.

An imperfect imprint, but a beloved artist, and I'm glad I took the time to really sit with his art. But thick borders steal real estate from large paintings and the quotes from interviews, etc., while insightful, grow overbearing and are chock full of unfortunate typos. I enjoy lingering over a physical print, and the image quality is fine. It is a literal vision, but at the same time, blood is not blood here, pain is not pain, crime is no crime, and there is nothing to protest against, as it would be equally meaningful to protest against the fact that snow is falling.'īut insofar as the benefit of picking up a print volume rather than browsing the artist's work online is print quality, accessibility, and curation, this is. It is only after you awake and analyze the details, that you notice that almost everything in the dream was strange and would have been terrifying if you had encountered it in your waking hours. This situation (from a dream of mine) is not surprising or terrifying to you. This man is lying on the ground and actually growing into it, all the while carrying on a conversation with you. 'In a dream, you can see a man who has a piece of raw meat instead of a head. (His later paintings are brighter and sometimes simpler, and I generally don't find them as evocative his digital manipulations are thematically similar but unfortunately show their age.)

It's uncomfortable and intricate, an exceedingly effective body horror and an invitation to linger over the details of the alien landscapes. He has the most remarkable organic greebling-a texture like hands/bones/branches/roots/veins which stretches across faces and buildings indiscriminately, thus uniting organic/inorganic, alive/dead, personal/public. I love this artist and his bewitching nightmarescapes. Art primarily from Beksiński's 'fantastic realism' period, ~1960s-80s, with a few examples of his later work.

The fantastic art of beksinski zdzisław beksiński