The late Zdzisław Beksiński with his dystopian surrealism paintings, filled with post-apocalyptic imagery and nightmarish creatures.
These unseen combinations gave birth to mind-bending scenarios, which do build an anxious feeling while looking at them. The artwork is beautifully abstract, yet it does have the power to invoke real world references, which makes it even creepier. The artist’s explanation? Well, it may lie in these cryptic words: “What matters is what appears in your soul, not what your eyes see and what you can name.”
