Beksinski eschewed the use of metaphor, that's why all his works were untitled. With that being said the paintings themselves capture the war-torn Eastern European landscape as well as any photograph I've seen. I wonder what are some other good artworks that depict the trauma of war. Most famously Picasso's Guernica and Goya's Third of May.

And there's this one:

As soon as you said "I wonder what some other" my brain went to Guernica before I read it lol but that's about all I can think of atm. and his depiction definitely doesnt come across nearly as grim.

Imagine being the one that discovered the house with Goyas Black Paintings all over the walls

Been thinking of rereading suttree soon, masterpiece init

Mr. Suttree it is our understanding that at curfew rightly decreed by law and in that hour wherein night draws to its proper close and the new day commences and contrary to conduct befitting a person of your station you betook yourself to various low places within the shire of McAnally and there did squander several ensuing years in the company of thieves, derelicts, miscreants, pariahs, poltroons, spalpeens, curmudgeons, clotpolls, murderers, gamblers, bawds, w****s, trulls, brigands, topers, tosspots, sots and archsots, lobcocks, smellsmocks, runagates, rakes, and other assorted and felonious debauchees.

I was drunk, cried Suttree.

So much of his art really does feel like you're looking at something forbidden that you're just not meant to be seeing. What has to happen in a person's life to go from painting things like this...

to this...

although if you really want to see his most horrifying stuff check out his black/white etchings/engravings from a series called Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War). They're probably worse than the Black Paintings

Yeah Goya hits way harder than something like The Guernica. Although it is cool as a piece of art, I saw it up close as a kid.

dude who's that pop star you like, the blonde girl who only dropped that 1 album ?? f*** I can't think of her name

Sky Ferreira?

yup I couldn't think of her name haha

You ever listen to the rest of Lisa Germano’s discography?

@Galaxy

Crazy how Nina SImone birthed so much of Nick Cave's intimate work especially No More Shall We Part

Most of it yea. All but the last 2 of 3 in the mid to late 00s

Honestly the more I think about it I like that Jackson C Frank self titled more than any Bob Dylan

That’s certainly an opinion
Which Dylan albums have you heard?

not Another Side

All his essential 60’s albums plus Blood On The Tracks.