Giger’s pieces are known for the nightmarish dreamscapes they depict, and were largely inspired by night terrors he endured due to a sleep disorder. Giger spent the early part of his career doing small ink drawings, before progressing to oil paintings and sculptures. However, Giger’s work was eventually used, and has strongly influenced many science fiction and horror artists since. The alien was based on the one featured in his 1976 painting Necronom IV, and its look upset 20 th Century Fox so much that they initially turned down the design, feeling it might be too disturbing to audiences. He is best known in the mainstream for having designed the horrific titular creature of the 1979 film Alien, as well as its sequels. Known worldwide by fans of alternative and surreal art and having something of a cult following, Giger was known for his unsettling and unique style of biomechanical science fiction designs. 12, 2014 from injuries suffered when he fell down the stairs in his home.
Giger, was a Swiss surrealist painter, sculptor, and set designer. But it harbored forbidding structures and estranged elements that left an impression on a child subjected to night terrors and panic attacks.Hans Rudolf “Ruedi” Giger, born Februand better known as H.R. Writing about how that style developed, Wired reported that in Chur, Switzerland, Giger lived "an idyllic childhood in one of the most beautiful places on Earth. His unique style helped the Swiss artist win an Oscar for his work on Alien. Wired magazine has said he merged "sex, tech, legend." In a career that spanned decades, Giger reflected humanity's increasingly close (and sometimes fearful) relationship with machines, creating work that seamlessly melds the organic with the mechanical. Giger Museum in Gruyeres, Switzerland, tells the AP. Hans Rudolf Giger was 74 he died in Zurich from injuries suffered in a fall, a representative of the H.R.
Giger created some of the most powerfully creepy visuals in Hollywood's history, including animals and props that forced some viewers of 1979's sci-fi film Alien to watch the film through their fingers. You might not know the name, but you probably know the work: H.R. Giger's work includes designs for the 1979 film Alien. Giger, seen here at his "Dreams and Visions" exhibition in 2011, died Monday after a fall in Zurich.
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