page_title: Zdzisław Beksiński
section_title: Painting and drawing
hierarchical_section_title: Zdzisław Beksiński / Life / Painting and drawing
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Obraz o tytule: AA78, 1978 r., 87 x 87 cm olej na płycie pilśniowej, nr inw. MHS/S/2249English: Painting entitled: AA78, year 1978, 87 x 87 cm oil on beaverboard, inventory no. MHS/S/2249
context_page_description: Zdzisław Beksiński was a Polish painter, photographer and sculptor, specializing in the field of dystopian surrealism. Beksiński made his paintings and drawings in what he called either a 'Baroque' or a 'Gothic' manner. His creations were made mainly in two periods. The first period of work is generally considered to contain expressionistic color, with a strong style of "utopian realism" and surreal architecture, like a doomsday scenario. The second period contained more abstract style, with the main features of formalism.
  Beksiński was stabbed to death at his Warsaw apartment in February 2005, by a 19-year-old acquaintance from Wołomin, reportedly because he refused to lend the teenager money.
context_section_description: Beksiński had no formal training as an artist. He was a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture at the Kraków Polytechnic with MSc received in 1952. His paintings were mainly created using oil paint on hardboard panels which he personally prepared, although he also experimented with acrylic paints. He abhorred silence; Beksinski listened to pop and classical music while painting.
caption: 1978 oil painting untitled AA78
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