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Documentary about H.R. Giger reveals fascinating details about the painter's life

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https://omnireboot.com/2015/h-r-gigers-d...ing-world/

EXCERPT: [...] Hans Rudolf "Ruedi" Giger was a Swiss surrealist painter, sculptor and set designer. He felt at home in places we would flee from and lived his life among the very things we fear. Giger's style and thematic execution were influential. His design for the Alien movies were inspired by his painting Necronom IV and earned him an Oscar in 1980. His books of paintings and [...] frequent appearance of his art in OMNI magazine continued his rise to international prominence.

[...] Giger pioneered using the airbrush as an artistic medium. His style and thematic execution blends realistic human bodies and surrealistic machines—a combination he called “biomechanic” —a style which has fueled the look and feel of nightmares for decades. Giger’s best work remains his original designs for Alien. [...]

Despite his extreme talent, Giger often suffered from anxiety [...] Throughout his life, H.R. Giger inhabited the world of the uncanny, a dark universe on the brink of many an abyss. It was only through art that this amiable, modest and humorous man was able to keep his fears in check. Giger was merely the bearer of dark messages, charting nightmares, drafting maps of the subconscious, and molding primal fears....


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