RIP H.R. Giger (1940-2014)

  On 5/13/2014 at 8:00 PM, hello spiral said:

 

  On 5/13/2014 at 12:31 PM, Producer Snafu said:

he made the mic stand for KoRn, i hate korn.

 

And yet you have the same hair :p

 

Eff you!

i'll have you know that i was over KoRn by the year 2001 and grew my dreads out in 2003!

  On 5/13/2014 at 8:51 PM, tec said:

RIP, an exceptional talent.

 

Does anyone know what came first, the Aphex Twin song or this piece by Giger? Did Aphex get the song title from him, or was the song made first then Cunningham asked him for ideas?

 

That came after Windowlicker was released.

the guy never got the change to hear CWLP :( sad

  On 5/13/2014 at 10:08 PM, Joyrex said:

 

  On 5/13/2014 at 8:51 PM, tec said:

RIP, an exceptional talent.

 

Does anyone know what came first, the Aphex Twin song or this piece by Giger? Did Aphex get the song title from him, or was the song made first then Cunningham asked him for ideas?

 

That came after Windowlicker was released.

 

wow never saw this before, Giger is the fucking man RIP

Damn, I was just watching Jodorowsky's Dune last night, and thinking about how awesome Giger was.

RIP

  On 5/13/2014 at 10:08 PM, Joyrex said:

 

  On 5/13/2014 at 8:51 PM, tec said:

RIP, an exceptional talent.

 

Does anyone know what came first, the Aphex Twin song or this piece by Giger? Did Aphex get the song title from him, or was the song made first then Cunningham asked him for ideas?

 

That came after Windowlicker was released.

 

 

So after the video was released he drew it? Still pretty cool, I always appreciate non-subtle penises in pictures.

one-dimensional and a tad overrated but w/e still an interesting figure. kinda like lebbeus woods for the repressed sci-fi dorks.

  On 5/13/2014 at 11:51 PM, dr lopez said:

one-dimensional and a tad overrated but w/e still an interesting figure

yeah that's about where i'm at. haven't explored the man's work in depth but it seems to be a lot of sex organs + creepy metal

 

but he did sex organs + creepy metal very well

He did creepy architecture pretty well too. Maybe everything looked creepy to him from a young age and he thought he was illustrating lifelike images. People's reactions to his work confounded him at first, but then it all dawned on him. So while his work still looked normal and lifelike to himself, he played to expectations knowing how people would react, thus cementing his stardom in creepy art history.

 

So yeah that's not one dimensional it's two dimensional AT LEAST.

RIP. love his art.

always thought giger just wanted to be schiele but was too much of a dork to hang out with actual prostitutes.

 

holy shit these ones are just so good

NSFW mayhaps

 

 

that's Schiele? don't belong in this thread, mayne. it is good stuff though, you can clearly see where Peter Chung got his influence from for Aeon Flux etc.

heil Satan and RIP Mister Giger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One of my favourite surrealists. Anyone who owns his original work is surely happy (but also sad) right now!

it is a bit one dimensional. i don't ever accept that 'this is how i/the artist sees reality' explanation for art because it's simply not true unless the artist is constantly hallucinating and has serious mental illness, in which case they'd have a hard time functioning at all let alone as an artist. thats just a romantic story artists tell to hype themselves up, just like aphex telling tall tales to his interviewers. 'this is how i see things maaaann'. haha yeah, sure you do. some of his stuff does look cool though and at least his style worked great for the aliens films.

Yup I meant that as a joke mister e. I think Giger just has a whacked imagination, came up with endless variations on his morbidly cool themes and pretty much knocked it out of the park.

well the night terrors thing and it having an influence on him, i can believe. and i suppose you could say that nightmares you experience are a part of the reality you are experiencing, but also because it's generated in your brain, it's still also your brain being creative so its something you are making with your mind. so maybe his dreams being warped and that influencing his art i could accept, but it also puts it in that shady grey area where nobody outside of that person knows if it's true or has any way of knowing. to some degree it probably is but i just always question these kinds of things. i think they tend to get exaggerated for publicity, maybe not even always by the artist themselves

 

 

kinda interested in the wiki where it says he directed some films in the 70s. one that stands out most to me is Giger's Necronomicon. anyone see any of that stuff?

Edited May 14, 2014 by MisterE

ah shouldve known itd be on youtube. looks like a thing about him and his art just at a quick glance. i was hoping itd be a low budget wacked out horror film

He inspired me to make drawings like this:

 

  On 5/13/2014 at 11:51 PM, dr lopez said:

one-dimensional and a tad overrated but w/e still an interesting figure. kinda like lebbeus woods for the repressed sci-fi dorks.

 

No, Giger wasn't one-dimensional. See his first drawings and you see he covers different topics. Birth fears, personal and intimate moments, biographical points etc.

Then, after he quitted his most known paintbrush drawings he went into a different, more decayed pencil style with the direction of sometimes even political or satirical content.

 

Overrated? Well, that mean never got the attention he deserved in his homeland. Never. His work was always too experimental.

  On 5/14/2014 at 9:38 AM, gaarg said:

He inspired me to make drawings like this:

 

 

Wow! You have a webpage with your drawings?

Not with these, I have lots of other things on my facebook tho: https://www.facebook.com/slikarPeterGaber

 

Here's another Gigery one

HOLY SHIT, RIP! Where to start? ONE OF THE GREATEST EVER LIVED! I can't even begin to tell you how much this man has inspired me. I have been in love with his art ever since I discovered Alien. His biomechanical, psychosexual style has made such an imprint on my art taste, and my own art explorations, that it's not even funny. I drew pages and pages of Alien fan comics as a teenager.

 

In fact, looking back on a few of my old embarassing pieces that are still on the internet, it's not hard to find some that are pretty derivative:

 

alien > aliens

i have ambivalent feelings about his death