henke on 13/5/2014 at 09:59
Oh man for a second there I thought Signourney Weaver had died. Whew.
RIP Giger tho.
SubJeff on 13/5/2014 at 10:35
Me too! Phew. That would have been surprising.
But Giger - RIP. Your art is still uniquely fascinating, even all the really explicit stuff.
demagogue on 13/5/2014 at 11:29
Hard to think of many other artists who had been as influential to an entire genre as he was.
Would I be going out on a limb to say his aesthetic is the practically the textbook aesthetic for hard scifi?
Here's to you, HRG.
Alien porn is on me, boys.
Thirith on 13/5/2014 at 11:37
Quote Posted by demagogue
Would I be going out on a limb to say his aesthetic is the practically the textbook aesthetic for hard scifi?
I'd associate hard sci-fi much more with a
2001 look; Giger's designs were always much more about erotic-romantic-gothic-nightmarish aesthetics, which isn't what I associate with hard sci-fi at all.
Unless you're making a joke about biomechanic penises, that is.
Jason Moyer on 13/5/2014 at 11:45
Realistic, hard sci-fi is more like 2001 or Solaris. While Alien itself may capture a similar overall aesthetic, Giger was a surrealist. That's probably a big reason why his Alien design is such nightmare fuel.
WingedKagouti on 13/5/2014 at 12:31
Quote Posted by henke
Oh man for a second there I thought Signourney Weaver had died. Whew.
RIP Giger tho.
My reaction as well.
Let's just hope that Giger is now free from whatever nightmare spawned his art.
Briareos H on 13/5/2014 at 13:57
I've always been looking for an excuse to play Dark Seed I & II.
Muzman on 13/5/2014 at 16:09
It's weird. His penetration (erk) was such that he redefined what an artist was. Or was something else entirely. I'm not really sure.
Being around at a time when gallery art and the New York scene was disappearing up its own Warhol in the primitive and outsider art etc, an Artist seemed never more removed from what regular folks were allowed to concern themselves with or enjoy. Art with a capital A happened elsewhere. But you'd find his books all over the place on the shelves of people who had little other interest. Young people who were bigger fans of music and photography.
I say this in retrospect, obviously, as 8yr old me wasn't terribly familiar with the trends of the New York art scene. But I had seen Giger's stuff dotted around various people's houses growing up. Not just Goths either, for all that. He hit that pop art niche while looking decidedly not pop and being somewhat removed from everything really.
He's called a surrealist, but that's almost a 'shit we can't really explain' category. You can see some broad influences around that time, but he doesn't look right in any movement. It's like there's painters who have a style and fit in movement and then there's Giger.
SubJeff on 13/5/2014 at 20:55
Yeah, his at defies genre IMHO. The guys I knew who were into it were anything but goths.
