Beksinski: Paintings & Photographs I: The Collected Works

Zdzisław Beksiński

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Beksinski - the Collected Works II . Paintings, Sculptures a

Beksinski

The volume 1 from Bosz Publishing series of albums with art of Zbigniew Beksinski, presents some of the most important paintings of acclaimed Polish visual arts visionary. The albums also includes introductory notes written by professor Tomasz Gryglewicz, and Wieslaw Banach, the director of the Sanok History Museum. All material presented in this album came from from rom various private collections, and the archives of the Historical Museum in Sanok, famous for world s largest selection of Beksinski s works.

Beksiński 1

Bosz Publishing House

Volume 2 comprises of Beksinski's 1970's drawings, and paintings from all of his creative periods. In addition, a computer-generated collages are also presented, which prove inside on how important to Beksinski was the use of a computer as an artistic tool, with all its possibilities. The introductions by a distinguished tenor Wieslaw Ochman, the artist's friend, and by Wieslaw Banach, the director of the Sanok History Museum in South-Eastern Poland. This volume is completed by archive photographs by Zdzislaw Beksinski from a private collections, none of them which haven't been published until now.

Beksinski 2

Product Description This bilingual album features the earliest and least known artistic work of Zdzislaw Beksinski - photography, with which he remained fascinated almost throughout the 1950s. Although the famous visionary artist consistently disparaged his juvenile fling with photography later in life, his earliest work is appreciated by art critics and academics alike. The text by Wieslaw Banach provides a systematic analysis of the motifs and formal elements in Beksinski's work (e.g. portrait, nude, expressionistic, abstract, montage), and has been arranged according to the original graphic design by professor Lech Majewski. The album is abundantly illustrated with never before published photographs, made available courtesy of the Historical Museum in Sanok and the National Museum in Wroclaw. The album features a little-known stage in the artistic work of Zdzislaw Beksinski. The text provides an analysis of motifs and formal elements in his 1950s photographs (e.g. portrait, nude, expressionistic, abstract, montage). The reproduced photographs come from the collections of the Historical Museum in Sanok and the National Museum in Wroclaw. About the Author Beksinski was born on 24th February 1929 in Sanok, though he used to say that this date was not at all certain. Apparently, during the German occupation of Poland during the Second World War he was given a false year of birth to save him from deportation to Germany to slave labour. During the War, he attended clandestine grammar school, and after the war ended he wanted to study film and to become a movie director. But his father did not consent, thinking it would not secure his son's future. In line with the family tradition, he made him apply to the Faculty of Architecture & Engineering at the Krakow Polytechnic. He studied there and graduated with MSc received in 1952. Later in his life he commented on his choice of architectural studies over art: "I hated architecture so much that architecture is a plan, a project and as boring as a mechanical saw execution". On April 30th, 1951 Beksinski married Zofia Helena Stankiewicz, and they remained married until her death on September 22nd, 1998. His wife became his muse, and he often used her as a principal model, especially in his photographic works. Beksinski had no formal training as an artist. After completing college he was obliged to take up a mandatory job assignment, which was then required by the orders of the Socialist government. He spent several years away from his home town Sanok, working on various construction sites as a construction site supervisor. He hated his job, and in spite of the monotonousness that came with it, he had gradually started realizing his true vocation. He took on sculpting, where he would often use his construction site materials for his medium. After fulfilling his obligatory employment, he returned to Sanok in 1955 and spent a few years working for the Autosan bus and coach manufacturer as a bus designer. But most of his projects, after creating prototypes, did not enter into production. When working for Autosan, he started taking painting more and more seriously. He brought brushes and paint from the Autosan paint shop. Setting up a studio at home was a big problem financially, but it didn't stop him from excelling in various art forms. Apart from an immense number of drawings he also did abstract reliefs and full sculptures. He entered the Avant-Garde stream and his exceptionalism started attracting critical attention. In his figural drawings, his aim was a well-nigh drastic kind of expression. Simultaneously he has followed his calling in art photography. In May 1957 Beksinski set up an informal group of art photographers and their expositions were soon held in various galleries in Poland. In 1958 Beksinski became a member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers, and in 1959 he and his two friends exhibited for the first time abroad, at the prestigious gallery in Co

Foto Beksinski

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Selection of the most important paintings by Zdzislaw Beksinski, one of the most original Polish painters of the twentieth century. Beksinski practiced photography, drawing, graphic art, computer graphics, sculpture, but most importantly painting. His fantastic, visionary, apocalyptic visions create recognizable at first glance style. Works of Beksinski are in museums and private collections in Poland and abroad, but the largest collection, numbering several thousand works, and the entire archive of the artist belong to the Historical Museum in Sanok. The images featured in this album come from this collection.

Beksiński. BoSzArt Malarstwo / Painting Series

Individual Artists

BILINGUAL EDITION, ALL TEXT IN ENGLISH AND POLISH. Our album on the work of Zdzislaw Beksinski presents a wealth of facts on this extraordinary artist. An expert guides the reader through the various periods in the work of Beksinski the painter, art photographer, and individual fascinated by the potential offered by computer graphics, not forgetting his biography, either. The album's rich illustrative material consisting of numerous works never published before juxtaposed with Beksinski's most renowned works gives an opportunity for a new encounter with this artist, even though ultimately the mystery of Zdzislaw Beksinski and his oeuvre will always be just as inscrutable.

Zdzisław Beksiński 1929–2005

Zdzisław Beksiński: Complete Limited Edition Collection (Vol. 1-5) – Small-Size Albums

The third album in our series featuring the works of Zdzislaw Beksinski presents rarely reproduced paintings and drawings from the archive of the Historical Museum in Sanok as well as private collections. The preface has been written by Wieslaw Banach, the late artist s friend and director of the Museum and by Andrzej Seweryn, renowned Polish actor who portrays Zdzislaw Beksinski in a biographical film Ostatnia rodzina (The last family). Beksinski 3 complements two previous bestselling albums, Beksinski 1 and Beksinski 2. The works featured in Beksinski 3 reveal yet another side of his artistic world and have not been published in the previous two albums.

Beksinski 3 (English and Polish Edition)

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