Hans Rudolf Giger: a dark art

Hans Rudolf Giger is the person with whom you least want to meet your eyes. He has a piercing, wading to the darkest corners of the soul, heavy, gloomy, as if from the underworld, a look. It seems that he sees and knows more about you than you yourself.

Biography

Hans Rudolf Giger was born in Switzerland, in a small town called Kur. It happened on February 5, 1940. The world met him not very affably. The birth was heavy, and the first thing that the head of the future artist touched was cold metal tongs.

Since childhood he was alienated and more immersed in his own inner world than in the real world. Even in his early years, his almost maniacal interest in the dark side of life was manifested. As he grew up in picturesque historical places, he had the opportunity to feed his interest by visiting places where criminals were executed. Attempts to look beyond that life manifested itself in the fact that the future artist dug out the long-buried skeletons, and then folded the bones under the bed secretly from the parents.

Once his father, a pharmacist, received a skull from one of the manufacturers of medical preparations. Seeing the son's enthusiasm for everything gloomy and fatal, Dad presented a gift to his son. Thus, finally fixing the direction of the interests of his son. Since then, they have become inseparable - pencil and Hans Rudolf Giger. Figures come out from under his pen one by one. After a while he decides to show his creativity, and since then begins his formation.

Way to glory

His first cycle of drawings Giger painted at age 19 and called "Atomic Children". At the age of five, the future artist saw the results of the tragedy in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Thousands of disfigured Japanese, the grief of people, innocent, threatening all humanity. The drawings were published in a journal published by Hans' home school.

Already in 1969 Hans Rudolf Giger released his posters, after which the artist is waiting for the first solo exhibitions. But the real recognition he received after the publication of the posters "Necronomicon". Soon a new stage in the artist's career begins. Giger Hans Rudolph, whose gallery of sketches amazes Ridley Scott's imagination, is invited to work in Hollywood. He develops the concept of creatures for the movie "Alien". It is his hand that belongs to the image of the xenomorph. In addition, Giger monsters become prototypes of the heroes of the remaining three parts of the film, as well as "Alien against the predator". In reward for his works the artist receives in 1980 an Oscar for Best Visual Effects.

Creativity of the artist

For certain it is not known how the child's relationship with parents developed. But, judging by the creativity, Hans Rudolf Giger probably got a psychological trauma, which throughout his life he tried in vain to sublimate into creativity. Focussed on the genital phase of development, the artist creates pictures filled with images of sexual organs, fetuses in the intrauterine space and disfigured female bodies. Judging by the pictures, the creator had an easy form of schizophrenia and a profound personality splitting.

A great influence on the style of Giger is provided by the paintings of Salvador Dali, Ernest Fuchs and Alfred Kubin, whom he has met since his youth. Some art critics add that most of the inspiration creator drew from narcotic hallucinations. In the works of the Swiss, there are clear signs of surrealism and magical realism.

Hans Rudolf Giger, whose paintings were created with the help of an airbrush, especially often used brown, swamp, dark blue and metallic colors. By spraying the paint on the canvas, he masterfully played the plexus of living, warm flesh and hard, cold metal. The metal tubes that dug into the innermost parts of the human body cause pain. Artificial mechanisms on all sides crush man, squeeze him, subordinate to his will. Very similar to the birth of an artist, is not it?

The final

In 1998, Giger acquired a chateau in the picturesque Switzerland, which today houses a museum and a storehouse for the artist's works. Relations with women from the creator did not add up, and his last days he spent alone. He died trite - from injuries sustained as a result of falling from the stairs. His last breath he made at the local hospital on May 12, 2014.