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Post by Chet Zar on Feb 22, 2005 18:51:52 GMT -5
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WARSAW, Poland -- Zdzislaw Beksinski, a surrealist painter who was one of Poland's leading contemporary artists, was found stabbed to death at his Warsaw home, police said Tuesday. He was 75.
Relatives found Beksinski's body overnight, and "everything indicates it was murder," police spokeswoman Zuzanna Talar said. He suffered multiple stab wounds, she said.
There were no signs his home had been broken into, police spokesman Mariusz Sokolowski told TVN24 television.
Beksinski was considered one of Poland's leading contemporary artists. He emerged on the Polish art scene in the 1950s and was best known for his abstract renditions of skeletons, monster-like creatures and other apocalyptic images evoking death.
He studied architecture in Krakow before moving into painting, photography and drawings. His works hang in the National Museum in Wroclaw, the National Museum in Warsaw and in a museum in Sanok.
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Post by charlichyme on Feb 22, 2005 19:53:56 GMT -5
That's awful!! I feel bad, but I've never heard of him. Is there a site where I could see some of his work?
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Post by Chet Zar on Feb 22, 2005 20:15:40 GMT -5
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Post by Diabla on Feb 22, 2005 21:10:32 GMT -5
I can't believe it, I admire this man so much, Beksinski is one of the most amazing artis ever. This is Terrible.
Chet, were did you find the news? I can't find anything on the internet
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Post by Chet Zar on Feb 22, 2005 23:07:43 GMT -5
i know, i just can't believe it.
a friend, ed benedetto emailed me. he found it online at the morpheus gallery news section on the website, but that too seems to be down now as well as beksinski's site. people must just be finding out and overloading the sites.
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Post by Chet Zar on Feb 22, 2005 23:13:30 GMT -5
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Post by charlichyme on Feb 22, 2005 23:37:33 GMT -5
Thank you for the sites and the info...
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Post by Richard Olmsted on Feb 23, 2005 3:11:44 GMT -5
that man was amazing. thats really really horrible to hear.
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Post by sidespin314 on Feb 23, 2005 4:45:57 GMT -5
I never knew of him until today...but I must say, I'm very intrigued by his art.
The cool thing about art...is that while most of us try to find a way to prepuate our existence even after we are gone, only artists in all their varieties and forms, find a way for thier voice to carry on through the ages....
And although this gentleman has passed from this reality and into the next, his spirit and vision live on...
Hope you guys are all doing okay...I'll keep ya all in my thoughts...
Later Skaters
TK
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Post by Ali on Feb 23, 2005 6:54:20 GMT -5
AWWWW NO WAY!!! THAT SUCKS!!! he was SO fuckING Good! and STABBED AS WELL!! thats no way for him to die!
i bet teh prat who did it didnt even KNOW who he was killing! THIS SUCKS.......this REALLY sucsk!
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Post by Chet Zar on Feb 23, 2005 16:58:36 GMT -5
i can't say enough about the man. his paintings always left me awestruck. get his book. it is really just miraculous stuff. so many brilliant ideas and feelings, and a technique to rival any of the old masters. he was a genius.
you are right, sidespin, he lives on in his work.
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Post by Diabla on Feb 23, 2005 20:03:44 GMT -5
Yes, he still lives on his AMAZING art.
Im going to try to get that book.
Thanks for the link chet.
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Post by Ali on Feb 24, 2005 7:26:54 GMT -5
i told my old art teacher and she was just gob smacked, she was so surprised teh way he died, he didint deserve to go taht way.
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Post by Richard Olmsted on Feb 24, 2005 19:25:09 GMT -5
i mentioned it to my teacher, and she was like "bezkineeh who?" and i was like "oh yeah, thats why i hate this class"
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Post by SyntheticLamb on Feb 25, 2005 2:11:11 GMT -5
i cant belive this his art really is amazing im still in shock as i just found out god hard few months dimebag, then hunter thompson now beksinski sad times
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