Zdzisław Beksiński (24 February 1929 21 February 2005). He was born in the town of Sanok, in southern Poland. His first paintings were abstract art, but throughout the 1960s he made his surrealist inspirations more visible. In the 1970s, he entered what he himself called his "fantastic period", which lasted up to the late 1980s. This is his best-known period, during which he created very disturbing images showing a surrealistic, post-apocalyptic environment with detailed landscapes populated by deformed figures. Despite the grim overtones, he claimed some of these paintings were misunderstood; in his opinion, they were rather optimistic or even humorous.
Of course more may be found on his official website:
http://www.beksinski.pl/
Of course more may be found on his official website:
http://www.beksinski.pl/
