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Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Location: I walk along the avenue
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 6:27 am Post subject: H.R. Giger is dead |
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Swiss artist H.R. Giger, who designed the creature in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic Alien, has died at age 74 from injuries suffered in a fall, his museum said Tuesday.
Sandra Mivelaz, administrator of the H.R. Giger museum in Gruyeres, western Switzerland, told The Associated Press that Giger died in a hospital on Monday.
Giger's works, often showing macabre scenes of humans and machines fused into hellish hybrids, influenced a generation of movie directors and inspired an enduring fashion for "biomechanical" tattoos.
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Not entirely my cup of tea, as far as surrealism goes, but an able craftsman by almost any measure.
I guess I should just let the art speak for itself...
Birth Machine
Brain Salad Surgery
And I'm sure most of you have seen his most famous creation. Though personally I recall the Mad magazine parody better.
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