R.I.P H.R. Giger

[Fantasy-Play]

I have been and always will be a fan of Giger's work. Scary. Dark. Sexy.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/alien-artist-hr-giger-dies-74-23691669

 

[Amnesiac]

I'm so mad that I wasn't the one to bring this one up, but I forgot to write anything and by the time I realized it, it was too late.

Fuck left field, Giger was one of those talents that comes by once a century that comes out of the bleachers and shows you a whole new way to do things with tools available the entire time. he was one of those painters that was both thoroughly modern but also eschewed the whole Expressionist gestural trend to focus on something that was more figurative but interpretive all the same. He also found a modern way to render the type of Medieval grotesqueries into a surreal-realist dreamscape, which I don't think any other artist could have even thought about doing because the combination is so unorthodox.

I'm eternally grateful for Giger's popularity being the result of the combined effort of geeks shoving him into the mainstream so the philistines could finally get some taste. Jodorowsky, Dan O'Bannon and Ron Shussett recognized his talent when few others did and thanks to their work with Ridley Scott, the world came to know Giger's work courtesy of a little movie called Alien. I know Giger was put-off by Hollywood's meddling in his aesthetic, but I look at it as the lesser of two evils compared to what we would have lost had it not occurred.

Thanks to that lesser evil, the world came to know and will remember H.R. Giger and his work. And the world is all the better for it, albeit somewhat populated by creepier nightmares.

 

[Fantasy-Play]

I'm so mad that I wasn't the one to bring this one up, but I forgot to write anything and by the time I realized it, it was too late.

Fuck left field, Giger was one of those talents that comes by once a century that comes out of the bleachers and shows you a whole new way to do things with tools available the entire time. he was one of those painters that was both thoroughly modern but also eschewed the whole Expressionist gestural trend to focus on something that was more figurative but interpretive all the same. He also found a modern way to render the type of Medieval grotesqueries into a surreal-realist dreamscape, which I don't think any other artist could have even thought about doing because the combination is so unorthodox.

I'm eternally grateful for Giger's popularity being the result of the combined effort of geeks shoving him into the mainstream so the philistines could finally get some taste. Jodorowsky, Dan O'Bannon and Ron Shussett recognized his talent when few others did and thanks to their work with Ridley Scott, the world came to know Giger's work courtesy of a little movie called Alien. I know Giger was put-off by Hollywood's meddling in his aesthetic, but I look at it as the lesser of two evils compared to what we would have lost had it not occurred.

Thanks to that lesser evil, the world came to know and will remember H.R. Giger and his work. And the world is all the better for it, albeit somewhat populated by creepier nightmares.

Thank you so much for writing this! Yes, yes, yes! What an impact.

 

[Libertine]

H.R. Giger and his model train set:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw7mP7jP3NQ

and if you're ever in Gruyere, Switzerland and don't like cheese, try his museum: http://www.hrgigermuseum.com/index.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83kJOl06ikk

 

[kopfhorer]

The hardcore band Dead Kennedys got into trouble for including this H.R. Giger work with their album, Frankenchrist: (Link is NSFW)