The Kybalion by Three Initiates5/29/2023 ![]() (…) And I just want to tinker, and I have a eudaimonistic point of view and I used to do what I like and not what I need.”ĥ. However, the artist refused to leave Poland.Īfter a few years, he said: “I refuse to travel, which (Bogucki) does not understand, because like every Pole, he wants to travel and to have a car and thinks that everyone must have the same. The exhibition was visited by the president of AICA and the director of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, James Johnson Sweeney, and probably he offered Beksiński a scholarship. ![]() One of the exhibitions was prepared by the Polish member of AICA Janusz Bogucki and Zdzisław Beksiński took part in it. As part of it, invited critics from around the world also visited Cracow and the biennial dedicated to graphics, the exhibition of folk art and painting which were prepared for this occasion. In 1960, the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) took place in Poland. He refused to accept a six-month scholarship of the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1961. ![]()
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