Untitled 1972

This untitled painting was made by Zdzislaw Beksinski, sometime before 2005, using a muted palette to create a dreamlike vision. It feels like a journey through the artist's mind, where the process of painting becomes a way to navigate strange terrain. Beksinski's approach to texture is striking. The brushstrokes are visible, almost tactile, building up layers of meaning. In the sky, you can see how the colors blend, creating depth. Notice the birds, they look like they were etched into the surface, they add this sense of movement and foreboding. Then there’s this figure impaled on a stick in the foreground, he makes me think of Goya. Beksinski’s paintings have a lot of ambiguity; they are more about opening up possibilities than pinning things down, you know? They let you feel something, without telling you exactly what to think.