Paintings in this style, which often appear to have been sketched densely in coloured lines, were much less lavish than those of his 'fantastic period' but just as powerful. His art, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, focused on monumental or sculpture-like images rendered in a restricted and often subdued colour palette, including a series of crosses. During this time, his works became more popular in France due to the endeavors of Piotr Dmochowski, and Beksiński achieved significant popularity in Western Europe, the United States, and Japan. The 1980s marked a transitory period for Beksiński. They hold within them a secret poetry, stained with blood and rust.' Later work Īccording to Mexican film director Guillermo del Toro 'In the medieval tradition, Beksiński seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh––whatever pleasures we know are doomed to perish––thus, his paintings manage to evoke at once the process of decay and the ongoing struggle for life. Before moving to Warsaw in 1977, he destroyed a selection of his works in his own backyard, without leaving any documentation concerning them. For the most part, Beksiński was adamant that even he did not know the meaning of his artworks and was uninterested in possible interpretations in keeping with this notion, he refused to provide titles for any of his drawings or paintings.

At the time, Beksiński claimed, 'I wish to paint in such a manner as if I were photographing dreams.' ĭespite the grim overtones, Beksiński claimed some of his works were misunderstood in his opinion, they were rather optimistic or even humorous. These detailed works were painted with his trademark precision. This is his best-known period, during which he created disturbing images, showing a gloomy, surrealistic environment with detailed scenes of death, decay, landscapes filled with skeletons, deformed figures, and deserts.

In the late 1960s, Beksiński entered what he himself called his 'fantastic period,' which lasted into the mid-1980s.

He soon became the leading figure in contemporary Polish art. īeksiński undertook painting with a passion, working intensely while listening to classical music. Fantastic Realism Īn exhibition of Beksiński's works organized by Janusz Bogucki in Warsaw in 1964 was his first major success. Beksiński listened to classical music while painting. His paintings were mainly created using oil paint on hardboard panels that he personally prepared, although he also experimented with acrylic paints. He was a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture at the Kraków Polytechnic, receiving an MSc in 1952. Beksiński had no formal training as an artist.

Beksiński 2 by Zdzisław Beksiński