I decided to use the a book by an artist called H.R Giger. His work has a monochromatic style to it, depicting surreal, nightmarish dreamscapes. I wanted to use this artist because I'm using a film concept artist that worked on prometheus for my second practitioner. Also HR. Giger is my third Practitioner.
Task 2
Book Title: HR Giger Retrospective.
Published by Morpheus International,
Paperback released 1997.
Hans Rudolf Giger is a swiss surrealist painter, sculpter, and set designer. He was part of the special effects team that won an academy award for best achievement for visual effects for their design work on the film Alien.
Giger was born in Chur, Graubunden, switzerland, the son of a chemist. HE spoke of a father who viewed art as a 'breadless profession' and strongly encouraged his son to enter into pharmaceutics. Despite this, in 1962, he moved to zurich, where he studied architecture and industrial design at the school of applied arts.
Giger's style and thematic execution have been influential. His design for the Alien was inspired by his painting 'Necronom' and earned him an oscar in 1980. Giger got his start with small ink drawings before progressing to oil paintings. For most of his career, Giger has worked predominantly in airbrush, creating monochromatic canvasses depicting surreal, nightmarish dreamscapes.
The piece that inspired Alien.
This is one of the only pieces if Giger's work I actually like. I do like all the things he's done for the Alien franchise I think the art style is very unique and scary with a very 'cool' factor to it. I actually find some of his other things to be quite weird and not something I'm really into.
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