Art Bleeds in the Mid Modern Shadow of War
Death was on the minds of many after World War II. The recoil and reconstruction process left after the horrific crimes committed by the Nazis left the world and the popular culture wounded in an irreversible way. Beksiński One of the best examples of the cultural wound left by WWII is the haunting, disturbing, and outright bloodcurdling paintings created by Polish artist Zdzisław Beksiński . He was born in Sanok, Poland in 1929, a city whose population was nearly 30% Jewish at the time, leading to Beksiński as a child having front row seats to the atrocities committed during the war. Beksiński is most well known for his self-proclaimed "Fantastic Series", an array of paintings created from the late 1960s to the early 1980s that depict breathtaking and horrific landscapes. His unique brand of gothic surrealism leaves one hell of an impression on whoever lays eyes on his work, his level of detail is nearly beyond comprehension on first viewing. Beksiński