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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An unbelievable journey through dark,elegant,decaying worlds, February 19, 2000
I was very surprised to see only one review of this book...other than my own that is,for this is truly an amazing volume of artwork by the greatest painter,or artist EVER. If you like Giger,you'll love Beksinski. Now don't get me wrong,Giger is extraordinary,but he uses an airbrush to illustrate his subjects and had some formal training as an artist...Zdzislaw uses a brush, achieving even more intricate details,and he had NO training as an artist...let me tell you,it doesn't show. In nearly all of this master's pieces,there is an unusual GLOW always present... the sort of thing you really just have to see for yourself to understand. With most other artists of this nature,I,an artist of similar subject matter,usually tend to compare my work with theirs,but not this time. While studying some of these pictures,it's almost impossible to believe they were created by a human being,with a standard brush no less! A word to fellow artists however...buy this book,enjoy it,but don't try to compare yourself to what you see...(cmon,you know you do sometimes) because if you do,it sort of gives you this feeling that there's no point to go on,with insanely talented painters like this out there,no matter how good you are. I mean,c'mon,this guy beats GIGER! Hands down...the greatest artist of any nature to ever live! As for the subjects and style,like I said,it needs to be seen to be understood,but I can tell you you'll find a good deal of surprises and starts each time truning the page...strange twisted beings perhaps just risen from the sea,some full of life,others,decomposing...and of course there are the ever present towering monoliths...their inhabitants apparently slaves to their perpetually ongoing construction...when their are living inhabitants to be seen,(which is quite rare)...BUT I don't want to spoil it for you,so I'll shut up now. Just buy this book,no matter what you're interested in,or who you are. You will not be disappointed...I promise!
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Awesome, August 3, 2004
People have compared Bekinski's work to Giger's but I really don't think they're that similar, other than a theme of organic buildings and alien landscapes. Giger's work is all about sex and machinery, but Bekinski isn't interested in making any kind of statement, he's purely interested in the imagery, which is why I think I relate to him more than any other professional artist. Anyway, about his work, it's stunning. It takes you out of this time and place and into a far past or future of old dry dead things which are somehow still alive and aware. It's morbid and it's beautiful and I've found it to be extremely inspiring.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
My latest inspiration., February 14, 2004
I'm not about to start making comparisons to other artists of similar subject matter (like H.R. Giger, whose work was one of my first inspirations), but since seeing my first Bekinski painting literally yesterday, I have been enthralled by his unparalleled mastery of the dark. You get a few glimpses of world War II in his works - just enough to perhaps guess as to what served as his inspiration - but his work goes much, much further than simply portraying the horrors of war. From trees of desiccated limbs, covered in age-old spiderwebs, to similarly skeletal monolithic constructions, foreboding in their mysterious ultra-human purpose, there is a merging of dead life and non-living objects, so that often one hardly knows if one is looking at a rock that has been given the shape of a bone or a dried tree limb, or rather a bone that has degenerated to such an extent that it has come to resemble a piece of wind-blown slate.The artist himself has often reiterated that his paintings are not references, and that reading meaning into them is a waste of time; indeed, all of his works bear a single name - "Untitled." But to me, this means simply that there are all but infinite layers of meaning in Bekinski's crazed paintings - ones that invite the onlookers to define the art for themselves, and by doing so, lose themselves in the twilight of the infinite corridors of Zdzislaw Bekinski's imagination.
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