I've noticed that many artists that i'm fond of have the same attitude towards the "message" of their art. If i recall correctly, Andrei Tarkovsky has said something similar about his films, he doesn't make films with a set meaning or message but lets the audience just experience his films. I remember watching an interview with Werner Herzog where he says " - And you will find that in great poetry, when you listen or you read a great poem it will occur to you very abruptly that there's a deep enormous truth in this poem. And you feel illuminated by it, and you don't need to analyze, you don't have to read lots of literature about this poem. You just know it instantly." And i think the same applies to most art i tend to enjoy. Maybe because of my habit of overanalyzing most other things in my life. It gives me a moment to breathe and just enjoy something for the sake of enjoying it. If someone asked me to tell them what makes my favorite art pieces great in my opinion, i probably couldn't even answer them. And when you find someone else who shares that feeling an "gets it" that's one of the most satisfying feelings ever, but also trying to explain it to someone who doesn't get it is extremely frustrating, it's like trying to describe a beautiful landscape with only words.
Jestem zachwycona Beksińskim. On był tak złożony, tak genialny , świadomy swego geniuszu ale jednocześnie skromny. Był tak piekielnie inteligentny. Przeczytałam i obejrzałam już chyba wszystko na temat Pana Beksińskiego, byłam w muzeum w Sanoku i ciągle mi mało.
For real, lol. I found this both inspiring and comforting. I always feel like I was waiting for this great burst of creativity or inspiration, or that my drawings needed to be deeply symbolic or meaningful, but it just never came. So I felt I wasn't an artist. But this man flipped it on its head and says, "No, I just paint." Sort of freeing for me to just continue putting pen to paper and let fly.
not really. obviously many artists refuse to go in-depth, maybe they think it's pretentious or not worth to share or analyze. it doesn't just happen. there is reason, there is inspiration. it's either subconscious or not worth sharing in the artist's view.
@@dontworryaboutit273 I don't think it was conscious for him, and it doesn't have to be for anyone. You can just make something that you feel you can relate to, or something you want to look at, and it's a creative expression of subconscious emotions.
@@dontworryaboutit273 Always avoid the willed symbolism. Always avoid the conscious allegory. Always avoid the constructive contrivance. For sure avoid the representation. Just present. Burrow through the ready cliches and schemas. Let them pass through you. What is underneath is not what you know. It is what you don't know. It's what you are exploring. If that journey is interesting and meaningful, ecstatic and scary to you - possibly it will be for others. Do not endeavour to deliberately express yourself. Burrowing towards the core truth will automatically display what you are, as a by-product the struggle. Self-expression is a byproduct of directed effort, honesty and courage. Style is a byproduct of connecting with a voice of yearning. It is the rythm of it's speech. Flow is your helper, found in the oblivion of ritual repetition. Do not think of emotion. It takes care of itself. It runs away if you look. Emotion is inside the sensual. You enter through the sense detail. You focus, you concentrate, you do not get in the way, you move the pencil until it moves you. You allow the work trance, you embrace forgetting what you are, what you know, what you would like to be. You may not feel what you are feeling, you may not know what you know, there may be no time to catch on. Don't swim in it. Be it. Dissolve your self and let the new self assemble itself from the digested past crashing into the needs of the now and the intuition of what may be about to be. You will feel it's arrival before it arrives. Whatever it is. And when it does. Do not violate it with contrivance. Do not get in the way. Do not look up. Do not think or fight the blinders. Don't plot a course. Listen to what is until the road emerges. If you get stuck - do not pile on ideas. Dive deeper into what is already there. Fixate on the superficial, the placeholders and the misdirections. Look what's under there. Maybe you slipped past too fast because it was too close, too live, too boundless and out of hand, too scary or way too pleasurable. Be ready for the whole to fall away at any point. Be ready to sacrifice it all until the last moment. There will be two epiphanies: The first resonant opening, that sends you off into act two, and the moment when you suddenly see the whole thing in context and you realise the through the specific and individual, you arrived at the global and universal.
@@whynottalklikeapirat I had to take a day to sit and read all of it. I have to say, I feel like my understanding of what you wrote is only superficial, but I can at least appreciate the depth of it and find something encouraging to pursue art..."You move the pencil until it moves you." Thanks, stranger!
Yes, now I see, he is of the most important artists of our time. The best are usually veiled like this, while they should celebrate him like Picasso they do not - and never will. But to them that know art and him, we will continue to light his candle - out of respect.
Great to watch interviews of greatest influencer and inspiration for my own art. Awesome to understand him better and get suprised how many views on the world are similar!
If these interviewers didn't have there heads up there asses we could have possibly gained more insight. Still fun watching him talk about his work/process. He's up there with the greats to me.
Andy nie wiem skad Ty sie urwales ale dziekuje za te filmy ... za te filmy ktore sprawiaja ze juz do konca nie glupieje w tym dzisiejszym chorym swiecie ...
Incredible interview. He sees how pointless life can be, but is just trying to make the best of his time while he's around. You can tell he wants to be a star, an entertainer, an admired person like the greats he mentions, but is humble about the way he got there. It was very interesting to hear him say if the world ended and he was the last man around with a paint set, he wouldn't bother painting because nobody would be around to give him recognition or reward. Is he sad on the inside and just driven by money and notoriety? From all the interviews out there he is very complex..calculated, almost like a serial killer.
For people that want to know The story of beksinski and beksinski’s family , watch a Polish movie called „The last family" , one of my all time favorites
czyli jednak dotarłeś do tego wywiadu, ciekawym bardzo w jaki sposób... Gratulacje i wielkie dzięki za przypomnienie owej rozmowy. Pozdrawiam serdecznie.
Czuję się głęboko zażenowana poziomem pytań skierowanych do Beksińskiego w tym materiale... Podziwiam jego cierpliwość. Nie da się w uniwersalny sposob zinterpretować wiersz, obrazu czy utworu muzycznego! Tak jak (B. to podkreśla) nie da się wytłumaczyć krajobrazu czy zjawiska przyrody.
Beksinski explains art and the artist perfectly - I have been waiting for a colleague with a modern voice who shared my opinions, but unfortunately he was murdered. I never knew about him until now.
The strained questions were brilliantly managed by the artist. His comments meant a lot to me as an artist. This setting was rather odd. A stairway.....to heaven....to insight.....some unknown metaphor on the part of the interviewers?
Bez wątpliwości jedna z najciekawszych rozmów z Mistrzem… Atmosfera, która się wytworzyła między rozmówcami była wyjątkowa, bo zależało obu stronom na jakości dyskusji i moim zdaniem baaardzo to czuć… Ale dało to super efekt w postaci kilku ważnych zdań dających do myślenia..
Odżegnuje się od jakichkolwiek treści i znaczeń w swoich obrazach tak jak Lynch od treści i znaczeń w swoich filmach. Ale i jeden i drugi ma swoich egzegetów, którzy bezbłędnie interpretują o co chodziło autorowi
She is propably quite friendly and respectful but as I don't speak the langua it seems blaiming and interrogative in some way the way she interviews him :D
Did Beksinski confuse the western concept of nihilistic nothingness with the Buddhist 'no-thingness'? It seems to me like his paintings create the sensation of a kind in between those
I think that his parents made mistakes in his upbringing. His father wasn't entirely able to live in Normal world. He was little bit odd and introvert. Tomas's was sensitive and educated and he lived in the world of music , films and books . He thought that world should look like world created in his dreams and he couldn't stand that reality looks different. I think that he was also little bit spoiled ;) I don't wanna judge but you know... He looks little bit like spoiled child in those materials . Sorry for Ma English
I think it was partly because of the lack of real romantic relationship. It was also the thought about growing consumptionism which was coming and devouring everything that he loved - his music, his art and the movies. You can hear the echo of this idea in his last radio audition. The new millenium for him was the symbol of the death of his world and after this the only thing he could imagine was pure nihilism so he decided to die, he did not want to experience this kind of reality.
mr. Beksinski, you better go truly inside of yourself and find a core of life and true eternity afterwards...or everything you have done here will perish in after-here!
You may seem like an answer but even you don't know the secrets. . . and thus: The Nothingness, the nihilism. We're all just soaking up time, trying to not be bored. Some of us are better at it than others. It's all farts in the wind.
Beksińskiskiego można słuchać pasjami... Ale prowadzący wywiad nieprzygotowani, żenujący ze swoimi pytaniami, jakby nie znali jego postawy, genezy twórczości, jego poglądów, itd. Przecież to nie początkujący Beksiński tylko schyłek jego twórczości. Beksiński wykazał się duuuuzą cierpliwością.
