![]() ![]() In the 60s he created a number of sadomasochistic drawings. Instead he remained faithful to his dreams and obsessions, which in the end won him great popularity. Afterwards he worked exclusively as an artist.īeksiński paid little or no attention to trends in art - he had no intention of becoming a favourite of the critics. After having had his first successes as a painter, he was fired from the bus factory in 1967. Painting would prove to be the medium best suited to his personal vision. In this capacity he created several abstractionist reliefs. Before he devoted himself to painting and drawing, he also sculpted for a brief period. ![]() Photography seemed to constrain his imagination, so he turned to drawing and painting, fields which offered the possibility of ‘photographing dreams,’ as he put it. He eventually gave up on photography in the early 60s, because he grew disappointed with the limited possibilities of altering the images he captured. One of his most famous photos, Sadist’s Corset, shows Beksiński’s liking for sadomasochistic themes. Some of his photographic works are described as surrealistic-expressionist. In the 50s he became active as a photographer. After working in construction, he started to work in his hometown, Sanok, as a bus designer for an automotive factory. Beksiński, who was born in 1929, completed the Faculty of Architecture of the Kraków University of Technology. ![]()
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