pequenas lecciones de diseno: Zdzisław Beksiński

I choose to write about this painter not only because he is the one of my favourite but also because I think that his art has undeniably some influence on the world. First thing is that his art is totally different from other (at least polish) artists those times. He shows us the dark , surrealistic vision of world which is so maticulous and captivating that seems real to me.

Zdzisław Beksiński was born 1929 in Sanok, Poland. He achieved an architecture degree in Kraków (Cracovia) but his biggest passion was painting , sculpture and graphic. His live was very dramatic. His wife died after some serious disease and shortly after that his son commited suicide. Beksiński himself was murdered (by the 17-years old burgler) in his apartment in 2005.
All those things have some impact on his art but the artist never confirmed that. He himself often found his paintings amusing and thought of them as hopeful rather than apocalyptic. His inspiration for his art is supposed to have mostly come from music.

The polish painter and the mexican director

During my research abot Beksiński I found out that one of the most famous mexican director Guillermo del Toro admitted that the art of Beksiński inspired him to create some of his creatures. Del Toro is a director of such films like
Pan's Labirynth
Hellboy
Don't be afraid of Dark
The Hobbit trilogy ( in assosiation with Peter Jackson)
Mama
In all those films I can see the part of Beksiński's terrifing world.