OT: HR Giger 2005-04-28 - By Steven Caron
Back
had a friend in school who wrote a psych paper proving giger to be a
necrophiliac. sorry if that erks people
On 4/28/05, Brad Friedman <xsibrad@(protected)> wrote:
> In my experience, Giger has gone from a pronoun to also being accepted as
> an adjective.
>
> whats his style? Its Giger-esque.
>
> Though Bernard is right about there being a certain industrial element.
> I'd also point to a juxtaposition of organic elements. And often the
> juxtaposition points to a certain perversion of the organic form by the
> industrial (or perhaps we just automatically interpret it as perverse?).
> Hence its particularly well suited to the horror genre which often uses the
> perversion (both industrial and magical) of flesh, organic forms and natural
> states as a source of fear. i.e. Frankenstein. i.e. Dracula. i.e. zombies.
>
> -brad
>
> lpiasecki76 wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi, my apologies for this being off topic.
>
> I just came across this artist. I wonder if any body knows of more artists
> with a similar 'style'?
>
> What exactly is this 'style' called? Dark art? Dark fantasy art?
>
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Luke
>
>
>
---
Unsubscribe? Mail Majordomo@(protected) with the following text in body:
unsubscribe xsi
|
|
