Space for school-english: Zdzisław Beksiński

The person that I would like to introduce to you is Zdzislaw Beksiński.
A prominent painter, photographer and sculptor.
He was born on 24th February 1929 in Sanok, and dies in 21st Februar 2005.
Studied at the University of Technology in Cracow on faculty of architecture.
While he was studying married his love Zofia Stankiewicz.
In the near future was born their only son, Tomasz who, like his father was an artist but associated with music.

I chose Beksiński because of his creativity and masterpieces, not for his personality.
His works should see everyone although because they are one of a kind.
His style is difficult to define, he called it a variation of Baroque or Gothic.

As a young artist worked in photography.
Today Beksiński is rarely associated with black-and-white photos,
but it was of them started their careers.

Another form was for the young Beksiński sculpture.
It was a purely abstract sculpture, performed mainly of metal, wire and sheet metal.
There were created reliefs and masks.

After some time passed, Beksiński passed to the next form of expression - drawing.
His drawings were first half abstract.
Then he went to pure figuration of the full eroticism, sadism and masochism atmosphere.
Characters in the picture were mostly naked bound and enslaved
Often appear deformed little boy tied and bound.
These drawings in prudish Poland Ludowa could not be shown differently than special shows.

In 1964 he began to paint. Definitely broke the avant-garde and fully devoted himself to painting fantastic, visionary carefully pictorial with oil paint on hardboard.

He never named his paintings and claimed that each viewer can interpret them in any way.
One of the periodic his creativeness was named fantastic realism period when he painted disturbing images of a surrealistic, nightmarish environment.
Some argue that the nightmarish images are the artists dreams.

An important but unpleasant moment in his life was the death of his family.

Zdzisławs wife, Zofia, died in 1998; a year later, on Christmas Eve 1999, his son Tomasz.

He was a popular radio presenter. Committed suicide. Beksiński discovered his son's body

Zdzisław Beksińki was murdered in his apartment in Warsaw at night on 21st February 2005.

The killer stabs 17 blows with a knife.

In 2001, the artistic achievements Beksiński bequeathed to the Historical Museum in Sanok, who during his lifetime gave about 300 of his works. After his death, the Museum received about 20 of his last paintings, about 1000 images and graphics, as well as the entire property

One of my dreams is to visit this museum. Maybe someday Sanok will be on my way.