HR Giger 2005-04-28 - By lpiasecki76
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Raffaele and everyone else - thank you for the extra info and comments.
As for not hearing about Giger before, that's probably because my art
background is close to none :-)
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> From: owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf
> Of Raffaele "ThE_JacO" Fragapane
> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 1:35 PM
> To: XSI@(protected)
> Subject: RE: HR Giger
>
> I have to suspect, at this point, that you lived in a bunker for the last
> 29
> years, with the mailing list as the only link to the external world!
>
> How could you not have heard of Giger before?!
>
> Anyway, some people who like to categorize everything called it Goth
> Industrial or Bio-Industrial.
>
> To find similar artists you are better off looking for them in Japanese
> sites, Japan is the one nation that's most maniacal about Giger and where
> most people copied his style with different levels of success.
>
> Books about the first 2 aliens, Dune and an old art book called Dark
> Renaissance (not too sure about this, I'm literally translating the title
> of
> the Italian publication) all feature his work and some interviews; one in
> DR
> is also the only time I've ever read Giger mentioning other artists he
> likes
> or he's inspired from (the guy is damn good but sort of seems incredibly
> full of himself usually, and not very prone to giving credit to 3rd
> parties)
>
> If you are into emulation, it's also widely accepted that the best way to
> do
> what Giger does is squashing a cockroach on top of a SMB smut magazine,
> scan
> it and then proceed to desaturate it and blur it a bit. Job done.
>
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> From: owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf
> Of
> lpiasecki76
> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 5:38 PM
> To: XSI@(protected)
> Subject: HR Giger
>
> 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
>
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