Zdzislaw Beksinski
I don’t think art gets much darker than that of Zdzislaw Beksinski without being gratuitous…his art seems honest and real, and can be quite disturbing. I’ve seen his stuff around before on album covers and such, but didn’t know his name until recently, so I have only just started exploring his incredible works. I think I need to ingest it in small doses.
I don’t know if I can say I ‘like’ his art…perhaps I am astounded by it, and overwhelmed by it. I am especially impressed by his grim landscapes, endless fields of gravestones and monumental buildings.
Rather than attempt to describe his works, I present some links to view them for yourselves. Links open in a new window.
Online gallery with lots of pix: http://www.gnosis.art.pl/iluminatornia/sztuka_o_inspiracji/zdzislaw_beksinski/zdzislaw_beksinski.htm
Official site: http://www.beksinski.pl/
Wikipedia for more info on his life and tragic death: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zdzis%C5%82aw_Beksi%C5%84ski
It’s interesting to read about his own feelings on his art in the Wikipedia article…’humorous’ would not be a word I would personally use to describe his paintings 
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Seems to ms that Beksinski was an incredibly disenfranchised man who took his revenge on the big bad world by expressing some astoundingly sick ideas with great precision and finesse. If those paintings were honest expressions of his soul, my god, what a diseased soul it was.