It is not recommended to get acquainted with the work of this artist for people with an unstable psyche, who have not reached the age of majority, as well as for pregnant and lactating mothers
Polish artist and photographer Zdzislaw Beksinski became famous after every one of his works were sold at the Warsaw exhibition in 1964. Later, the artist's fame reached the exhibition salons of France, Japan and the USA, and by the end of the 70s the famous Swiss master of the brush Hans-Rudi Giger (the creator of the Alien) declared him the greatest painter of our time.
In the past, an architect, who, by the will of fate, worked for some time as a foreman at a construction site, Zdislav hated his job and soon put all his efforts into painting. The canvases emerging from the artist's brush could not fail to attract attention: gloomy, post-apocalyptic visions; lumpy skulls entwined with decayed bandages against the background of ruined metropolitan areas; fantastic interweaving of human remains and mythical creatures - all these paintings, which were distinguished, plus everything, by the jewelry elaboration of the smallest details, shocked many.
It is interesting that the artist, who, as he himself claimed, did not suffer from mental illness and did not undergo bouts of depression, declared that his works had enough humor and optimism, but, frankly, not all of his fans agreed with him.
Another oddity: Zdzislaw Beksinski never gave names to his creations, they were assigned only a serial number.
Reckoning
And now the time has come when the artist's work began to leave its inexorable imprint on his personal life. In 1977, under the influence of the moment, Zdzislaw burns part of the work in the backyard of his house, leaving not a single sketch. Beksinski later explained that some of them were "too personal", others were unsatisfactory, and he did not want to be seen.
The artist took the death of his wife Sophia, who died in 1998, hard. But ahead of him was a much more merciless blow of fate: on Christmas Eve 1999, his son Tomas, then a popular radio presenter, music journalist and film translator, committed suicide.
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On February 22, 2005, artist and photographer Zdzislaw Beksinski was found dead in his own apartment in Warsaw. The police counted seventeen stab wounds on his body. The minor son of the commandant of the house where the artist's apartment was located was accused of murder - allegedly, shortly before the tragedy, Zdislav refused to lend him money. But the unofficial version is as follows: Beksinski was killed by his admirer (or an ardent hater), driven crazy by the paintings of the famous Pole.
Igor SAVELIEV
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