H.R. Giger
Over half a century before the dark subculture of morbidly inclined teenagers began to flourish in America, a young boy in Switzerland named Hans Rudi Giger was building "ghost rides" in his cellar and drawing deformed children on calendar sheets . Before his time, this artist went against the crowd, daring to be himself and daring to be different. As an accomplished sixty one year old painter, sculptor, moviemaker, costume designer and scriptwriter Giger doesn't create art, he lives it. The always confident and eccentric Giger has been known to wear hollowed out loaves of bread on his feet calling them "shoes", and once dressed up a dog as a robotic monster, but he is most notorious for his masterpiece movie successes The Alien trilogy. As a young man Giger attended a myriad of art schools ranging from interior design to drawing schools, and he even attended a military college once. He started to create tables and masks in 1964, also the year his ink drawings began to be published in underground magazines. He was working a full-time furniture design job for designer Andreas Christen when he fell "madly in love" with an attractive actress named Li Tober in 1966 . In 1967 they moved into a vacant apartment next door to a co
There are no words to fully describe Giger's work. Some things are beyond words and the only word I can think of to represent this body of talent is "captivating". Giger's unique blend of art cannot be outdone for it is perfect in its own tantalizing, disturbing way. Giger's art is like Andy Warhol's, it is just so distinctive and original, nothing will ever even come close to touching it. I see Giger's art as a vacation from the everyday motions of life. Its not art I would hang all over my walls, but it is certainly excellent work that should be cherished. I think that Giger is without a doubt a brilliant man, still ahead of his time, but nonetheless I believe his art should be taken with a grain of salt. The dehumanizing of women is somewhat disturbing and I am in no way condoning that. I like a great deal of his artwork, but there is certainly a portion of his work that I myself do not find appealing or healthy. I think that creating art is a very effective way of venting negative emotions, and Giger most certainly uses art as a medium to express his problems with women. In 1982, Giger and Mia divorced after less than two years of marriage, remaining friends to date. Giger began to work on many horror films, none of which gained much popularity, until MGM commissioned him to work on "Poltergeist II". After he signed the contract, Giger realized
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