| rdfs:comment | - __NOEDITSECTION__ Image:Information-silk.png|Character Template rect 0 0 20 20 Staff Template desc none H. R. Giger Real Name Unknown First publication Unknown
- H. R. Giger is a frustrated architect-become-celebrated artist, complete with hyphens. Unable to draw straight lines that define well-planned, intentional, and purposeful schematic diagrams of buildings and other enclosed spaces because of his inner demons' need to feed, Giger has sought to exorcise these fears and obsessions by giving them shape and substance through his paintings and sculptures. In the process, he has transformed the concept of the human-as-monster that an earlier artist (inasmuch as a writer can be considered to be an artist anymore in the Digital Age), Mary Shelley.
- A Swiss surrealist painter and sculptor known for his disquieting, biomechanical, often sexual imagery, Giger has achieved much of his fame from his work in films as a set and creature designer. Among the film projects he's worked on are Alien, Dune, Poltergeist 2, and Species. Before this he provided two paintings for Emerson Lake and Palmer's album Brain Salad Surgery, one of which had to be airbrushed for purposes of censorship. The Dead Kennedys included a poster of his painting Penis Landscape with their album Frankenchrist. They got in a little trouble for that. Danzig used his art for the cover of Danzig III: How the Gods Kill.
- Kategória:Képzőművészek Hans Ruedi Giger svájci festő, szobrász és díszlettervező, aki leginkább az Alien sorozat designjáról ismert - 1980-ban Oscar díjat kapott érte. 1940 február 5-én született Chur városában, Grisons kantonban, Svájcban. Az Alien filmek designját a Necronom IV című festménye inspirálta. A festmény a Necronomicon című kötetében jelent meg, a harmadik olyan könyvben, amelyben saját műveit publikálta. Ezt követte 1985-ben a Necronomicon II. Mindkét kötettel tovább erősítette nemzetközi elismertségét, amihez az is hozzájárult, hogy rendszeresen publikált az Omni magazinban.
- As well as the original adult Alien, Giger also designed the derelict spacecraft, Facehugger and Egg in Alien, and later worked on designs for the Alien, "Aquatic Facehugger", Chestburster and Alien skin in the 1992 film Alien3 (although these designs were ultimately rejected) and the murals seen inside the Engineer Temple in the 2012 film Prometheus. Other notable films Giger worked on include Species (1995).
|
| abstract | - Kategória:Képzőművészek Hans Ruedi Giger svájci festő, szobrász és díszlettervező, aki leginkább az Alien sorozat designjáról ismert - 1980-ban Oscar díjat kapott érte. 1940 február 5-én született Chur városában, Grisons kantonban, Svájcban. Az Alien filmek designját a Necronom IV című festménye inspirálta. A festmény a Necronomicon című kötetében jelent meg, a harmadik olyan könyvben, amelyben saját műveit publikálta. Ezt követte 1985-ben a Necronomicon II. Mindkét kötettel tovább erősítette nemzetközi elismertségét, amihez az is hozzájárult, hogy rendszeresen publikált az Omni magazinban. 1976-ban terveket készített Alejandro Jodorowsky végül el nem készült filmjéhez, a Dűnéhez. 1979 és 1980 között újabb terveket készített a homokférgekről és a Harkonnen trónról, de végül ezek felhasználása nélkül készült el a film, amelyet később David Lynch valósított meg. Közreműködött még a Poltergeist II és a Lény című filmek designjának elkészítésében is. 1988-ban Tokióban Giger bár nyílt, ami már bezárt, de azóta két újabb nyílt: az egyik szülővárosában, Churben, a másik pedig a HR Giger Múzeumban, Gruyères-ben. A HR Giger Múzeum 1998 június 20-án nyitotta meg kapuit a svájci Gruyères városában, a Château St. Germainben.
- As well as the original adult Alien, Giger also designed the derelict spacecraft, Facehugger and Egg in Alien, and later worked on designs for the Alien, "Aquatic Facehugger", Chestburster and Alien skin in the 1992 film Alien3 (although these designs were ultimately rejected) and the murals seen inside the Engineer Temple in the 2012 film Prometheus. Other notable films Giger worked on include Species (1995). For his work on Alien, Giger won an Academy Award for Visual Effects. He is primarily known for his disturbing, "biomechanical" style. He was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2013. On May 12, 2014, Giger died in a hospital in Zürich, Switzerland after having suffered injuries in a fall at the age of 74.
- H. R. Giger is a frustrated architect-become-celebrated artist, complete with hyphens. Unable to draw straight lines that define well-planned, intentional, and purposeful schematic diagrams of buildings and other enclosed spaces because of his inner demons' need to feed, Giger has sought to exorcise these fears and obsessions by giving them shape and substance through his paintings and sculptures. In the process, he has transformed the concept of the human-as-monster that an earlier artist (inasmuch as a writer can be considered to be an artist anymore in the Digital Age), Mary Shelley. He called his creation a Necronomicon, but Hollywood, in stealing it for use in the science-fiction thriller Alien, calls it a xenomorph, meaning "strange form," in honor of Xena the Warrior Princess, who was portrayed by the strange form of actress Lucy Lawless, a political anarchist who is "built," as Giger says, "like a man with a woman's tits and ass." Like another adrogynous warrior, Grace Jones, Giger finds Lawless' hermaphroditic form "strange and, strangely enough, appealing." It is a shape worthy of celebration through art, he says, and he may execute some "biomechanical art" depicting her "in the embrace of an aroused machine," the Orgasmatron.
- __NOEDITSECTION__ Image:Information-silk.png|Character Template rect 0 0 20 20 Staff Template desc none H. R. Giger Real Name Unknown First publication Unknown
- A Swiss surrealist painter and sculptor known for his disquieting, biomechanical, often sexual imagery, Giger has achieved much of his fame from his work in films as a set and creature designer. Among the film projects he's worked on are Alien, Dune, Poltergeist 2, and Species. Before this he provided two paintings for Emerson Lake and Palmer's album Brain Salad Surgery, one of which had to be airbrushed for purposes of censorship. The Dead Kennedys included a poster of his painting Penis Landscape with their album Frankenchrist. They got in a little trouble for that. Danzig used his art for the cover of Danzig III: How the Gods Kill. Giger also contributed art to the Darkseed games, has a number of bars in Switzerland themed after his art (which are probably nice, comfortable places to get a drink), and designs incredibly menacing furniture. And his name's pronounced GEE-ger.
|
