Horror

What.

Must.

This.

Man.

Dream?



Enter the world of Zdzislaw Beksinski. Do you find it beautiful, terrifying, or both?

Is it art, or madness?

Personally, I find it compellingly beautiful.

Very cool. Strong Giger elements.

I like the last picture with the man who has a lot of fingers. I actually drew a picture like that when I went through my artsy phase. It was a picture of Jimi Hendrix playing guitar, and he had about 12 fingers on each hand- ofcourse, he wasn't a skeleton.
The rest, I find disturbing. They are dark and depressing. The main theme seems to me to be death.

Wow. That is awesome stuff!

These three stood out for various reasons:

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Two

Three

Fascinatingly organic.

I don't see him as Ggigerish as you do, HM ... there's a quality of line and style and draftsmanship to Giger's work that Beksinski doesn't seem to have. His work is beyond neat, though!

I looked through a couple of the gallery pages, and it finally hit me ... this is the kind of picture that Harlan Ellison would sit in a store window and write a short story about.

I also thought that several of these pieces would not have been out of place as story lead ins in Omni Magazine, before the UFO wierdos took over.

Does it make me weird that I didn't find these works horrific at all? I don't really know how to explain it, but it was more like what a world of our dead ancestors might look like. None of the beings pictured seemed like they were coming after me or anything...they just looked - well - dead. Sort of like some of my neighbors.

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This one is my favourite, I think.

I think these two are the scariest:
http://www.gnosis.art.pl/iluminatornia/sztuka_o_inspiracji/zdzislaw_beksinski/zdzislaw_beksinski_1978_2.htm

http://www.gnosis.art.pl/iluminatornia/sztuka_o_inspiracji/zdzislaw_beksinski/zdzislaw_beksinski_1977.htm

But I think his art is utter brilliance. It is originally creatative and makes its beauty clear because of the unique style of his art.

I'm just glad someone had a camera there at my last family reunion. :D

Flippant

Carbonated_Brains wrote:

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This one is my favourite, I think.

Absolutely beautiful.. I find good abstract art to be like looking into the clouds. You can persuade your mind to see all sorts of things.

Beautiful. Some haunting imagery.

Carbonated_Brains wrote:

Is it art, or madness?

Are they mutually exclusive?

This is pretty freaky!

Oh crikey.
I could deal with the rest of them. But that is going to be in my dreams tonight.

leathered face wet tongue no eyes twisted blindly seeking larger than life coming after me mouth to bite and two wet tongues to lick and lick and lick

Sundae Girl wrote:

...and two wet tongues to lick and lick and lick

Wait, thats a bad thing?

Like it a lot, Geiger and Dali have a kid.

The thing which struck me first about these compositions is that they are all very classical spacial arrangements, matching colors with non-clashing accents placed where they balance, everything meticulously drawn and arranged. It is not the work of a deranged or disturbed individual, but rather somebody who knows exactly what he wants to express. Not all "art" is pretty or pleasant, sometimes we even find it repulsive, but I have to give this one credit for being a serious artist.

tonchi has the eye. very well stated.