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General Discussion / The haunting mindscape of Zdzislaw beksinski
« on: June 06, 2016, 05:19:29 am »
Zdizislaw Bensinski truly makes me feel like this is a whole realm that is yet undiscovered, or maybe a vision of our world from where all our vices are self evident.
His art feels like concept art, we have these creatures who clearly have minds and purposes of their own, but in a way I am thankful he never did conceptart, I feel like barlowe or moebius are tainted when their minds are devoted to simple adventure stories or shooting galleries. The world of Zdzislaw is far more unknowable this way, I think his pieces are like poetry, an idea that he felt and is deeply personal to him, but the way everything is linked and it's precise meaning is up to you.
Thanks to mathias we have an artbook scan
and the most iconic image of his I can think of.
I LOVE these root looking hands, they perfectly encapsulate the feeling of being nerveous of fucking something up real bad...I once sketched something like this the day before I had to record a documentary and I knew we didnt have enough info to make it what I wanted to be...I made the shittiest sketch with the same idea, but this is like the perfect rendition. He uses it on a lot of his pieces to communicate tension and doubt. that's how I read it atleast.
I was talking about him with Mathias some day and we thought a master study thread would be nice.
In terms of his artistic merits, he has a similar texture to that of H.R.Giger the conceptartist for Alien, but he uses it for many more enviroments and moods, he often has skin meld gradually turn into roots, fabric, or mist, it peals away easily and the same texture can be on an ancient monument or on a living being.
He was supposed to be a nice, shy person and I would think so. I think he really liked redheads, they're everywhere and the only beautiful woman I've seen from him was a redhead. I read a quote about his work once, when people said it was all bleak and grimy, and he responded that yes his world is harsh but when love does happen, it's all the more grand because of how sparse it is, it seems like it would take millenia for an expression of affection happen.
This image kind of encapsulates that =)
I have a collection of 650 these I've been working on for a while now and I've got terms for the things he does...I call that biological root thing he does knorg or knorganic... heh :p, but imgur is only allowing me to upload 150 at a time...I have 650....I could post em in batches....or post the dropbox gallery, but I think they look awful on that white background =/ oh well, been delaying posting this topic so long I think I'll give you these for now and if discussion picks up I post some more
His art feels like concept art, we have these creatures who clearly have minds and purposes of their own, but in a way I am thankful he never did conceptart, I feel like barlowe or moebius are tainted when their minds are devoted to simple adventure stories or shooting galleries. The world of Zdzislaw is far more unknowable this way, I think his pieces are like poetry, an idea that he felt and is deeply personal to him, but the way everything is linked and it's precise meaning is up to you.
Thanks to mathias we have an artbook scan
and the most iconic image of his I can think of.
I LOVE these root looking hands, they perfectly encapsulate the feeling of being nerveous of fucking something up real bad...I once sketched something like this the day before I had to record a documentary and I knew we didnt have enough info to make it what I wanted to be...I made the shittiest sketch with the same idea, but this is like the perfect rendition. He uses it on a lot of his pieces to communicate tension and doubt. that's how I read it atleast.
I was talking about him with Mathias some day and we thought a master study thread would be nice.
In terms of his artistic merits, he has a similar texture to that of H.R.Giger the conceptartist for Alien, but he uses it for many more enviroments and moods, he often has skin meld gradually turn into roots, fabric, or mist, it peals away easily and the same texture can be on an ancient monument or on a living being.
He was supposed to be a nice, shy person and I would think so. I think he really liked redheads, they're everywhere and the only beautiful woman I've seen from him was a redhead. I read a quote about his work once, when people said it was all bleak and grimy, and he responded that yes his world is harsh but when love does happen, it's all the more grand because of how sparse it is, it seems like it would take millenia for an expression of affection happen.
This image kind of encapsulates that =)
I have a collection of 650 these I've been working on for a while now and I've got terms for the things he does...I call that biological root thing he does knorg or knorganic... heh :p, but imgur is only allowing me to upload 150 at a time...I have 650....I could post em in batches....or post the dropbox gallery, but I think they look awful on that white background =/ oh well, been delaying posting this topic so long I think I'll give you these for now and if discussion picks up I post some more