Zdzislaw Beksinski (b. 1929 - d. 2005), Untitled, 1979.

oil, panel, 72 x 60 cm, signed on the back: 'BEKSIŃSKI 1979 | [C]'
Painter, sculptor, photographer, illustrator and computer graphics artist. From 1947 to 1952 he studied at the Faculty of Architecture at the Cracow University of Technology. Beksinski's oeuvre can be divided into two periods: the avant-garde period, which lasted for only the first few years, and the second period, during which the artist develops an image appropriate to his art, recognizable by the public. Initially engaged in photography, he created, among other things, collages, so-called anti-photographs, as well as abstract reliefs and metal figures. The artist's early works were realized in the convention of informel, painted in relief with thickly laid paint. In the early 1960s, he fully devoted himself to fantasy, visionary, figurative painting, carefully painted with oil paint on fiberboard. The first period of this painting, influenced by Eastern mysticism, was full of symbols, mysterious content and a catastrophic, horror-filled atmosphere. In 1977, he left Sanok and moved permanently to Warsaw. In the 1980s, he moved away from "anecdote", distracting from the pure form of painting, and turned again to his earlier experience with abstract painting, but still using a clear form. He has exhibited in France, Germany and almost all important centers in Poland. He is the only European to have a permanent exhibition at the Osaka Art Museum. In 1999, the Historical Museum prepared the largest retrospective exhibition of the artist at the castle in Sanok. The Historical Museum in Sanok also has the richest collection of the artist's works. In the collages he created before his death, he readily used computer techniques LITERATURE:
Beksinski, published by A P International, 1991, item 254 (black and white reproduction)