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Summary: Disturbing, thought provoking...and beautiful
Review: Beksinski grew up in WWII and postwar Poland, his art clearly reflects this influence in his life. Pictures wrought with bones and post-apocalyptic imagery fill this book to the brim. He has such a gift for intricate details, a picture of a skeletong playing a trumpet, the trumpet is made out of hundreds of bones, and one can not tell where the hands end and the trumpet begins. But, the minute details of the bones and the main character itself are just wonderful. The book also gives a teaser in the end of some of his later digital works, pieces that I hope we get to see more of. Beksinski is definitely dark...but belongs on the shelf right next to Geiger and Barlowe.
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Summary: An unbelievable journey through dark,elegant,decaying worlds
Review: I was very surprised to see only one review of this book...other than my own that is,for this is truly an amazing volume of artwork by the greatest painter,or artist EVER. If you like Giger,you'll love Beksinski. Now don't get me wrong,Giger is extraordinary,but he uses an airbrush to illustrate his subjects and had some formal training as an artist...Zdzislaw uses a brush, achieving even more intricate details,and he had NO training as an artist...let me tell you,it doesn't show. In nearly all of this master's pieces,there is an unusual GLOW always present... the sort of thing you really just have to see for yourself to understand. With most other artists of this nature,I,an artist of similar subject matter,usually tend to compare my work with theirs,but not this time. While studying some of these pictures,it's almost impossible to believe they were created by a human being,with a standard brush no less! A word to fellow artists however...buy this book,enjoy it,but don't try to compare yourself to what you see...(cmon,you know you do sometimes) because if you do,it sort of gives you this feeling that there's no point to go on,with insanely talented painters like this out there,no matter how good you are. I mean,c'mon,this guy beats GIGER! Hands down...the greatest artist of any nature to ever live! As for the subjects and style,like I said,it needs to be seen to be understood,but I can tell you you'll find a good deal of surprises and starts each time truning the page...strange twisted beings perhaps just risen from the sea,some full of life,others,decomposing...and of course there are the ever present towering monoliths...their inhabitants apparently slaves to their perpetually ongoing construction...when their are living inhabitants to be seen,(which is quite rare)...BUT I don't want to spoil it for you,so I'll shut up now. Just buy this book,no matter what you're interested in,or who you are. You will not be disappointed...I promise!
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Summary: My latest inspiration.
Review: I'm not about to start making comparisons to other artists of similar subject matter (like H.R. Giger, whose work was one of my first inspirations), but since seeing my first Bekinski painting literally yesterday, I have been enthralled by his unparalleled mastery of the dark. You get a few glimpses of world War II in his works - just enough to perhaps guess as to what served as his inspiration - but his work goes much, much further than simply portraying the horrors of war. From trees of desiccated limbs, covered in age-old spiderwebs, to similarly skeletal monolithic constructions, foreboding in their mysterious ultra-human purpose, there is a merging of dead life and non-living objects, so that often one hardly knows if one is looking at a rock that has been given the shape of a bone or a dried tree limb, or rather a bone that has degenerated to such an extent that it has come to resemble a piece of wind-blown slate.The artist himself has often reiterated that his paintings are not references, and that reading meaning into them is a waste of time; indeed, all of his works bear a single name - "Untitled." But to me, this means simply that there are all but infinite layers of meaning in Bekinski's crazed paintings - ones that invite the onlookers to define the art for themselves, and by doing so, lose themselves in the twilight of the infinite corridors of Zdzislaw Bekinski's imagination.
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Summary: Awesome
Review: People have compared Bekinski's work to Giger's but I really don't think they're that similar, other than a theme of organic buildings and alien landscapes. Giger's work is all about sex and machinery, but Bekinski isn't interested in making any kind of statement, he's purely interested in the imagery, which is why I think I relate to him more than any other professional artist. Anyway, about his work, it's stunning. It takes you out of this time and place and into a far past or future of old dry dead things which are somehow still alive and aware. It's morbid and it's beautiful and I've found it to be extremely inspiring.
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Summary: Beksinsky's wicked painting
Review: Pour les âmes perdues qui naviguent dans cette vie, voici un phare bien lugubre à la beauté pourtant si macabre.La mort sous les yeux de Beksinsky est un paradi pour les miens. La fragilité que je retrouve à l'intérieur de ces toiles est pourtant remplie de dureté physique.
For all the lost souls, this is a dark lighout. Death in the eyes of Beksinsky is a paradi for my eyes. The fragility i find in hes painting is filled of so much physical pain.
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Summary: Beksinsky's wicked painting
Review: Pour les âmes perdues qui naviguent dans cette vie, voici un phare bien lugubre à la beauté pourtant si macabre.La mort sous les yeux de Beksinsky est un paradi pour les miens. La fragilité que je retrouve à l'intérieur de ces toiles est pourtant remplie de dureté physique.
For all the lost souls, this is a dark lighout. Death in the eyes of Beksinsky is a paradi for my eyes. The fragility i find in hes painting is filled of so much physical pain.
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Summary: Bizzare and Beautiful!
Review: The artwork of Zdzislaw Beksinski is absolutely stunning. The images that are conjured in this book are so original and different. Beksinski has an eye for detail and the sheer uniqueness and ambiguity of his artwork really sets him apart from other fantasy artists/ surrealists. I highly recommend this book!
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Summary: Surreal and haunting!
Review: Wow. If you're looking for an art book that deals with surrealism, look no further than here! In my opinion Bekinski is the ultimate master of grotesque and morbid surrealism; i find his work to be far more fascinating than even Giger's. Bekinski's art is at the same time very dry, fragile, and above all, ancient. The high amount of abstraction in Bekinski's work is what makes it so alluring. He doesn't put portray his ideas and concepts explicitly, and therefore his art is open to interpretation. His compositions involving twisted, organic, corpse-like heaps actually remind me of my own artwork, so this book resides in a sentimental place in me. Buy this book now.
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