Hr giger art6/1/2023 Giger portrayed in his unique way the horrors of modern war, the specter that plagued humanity throughout the twentieth century as part of everyday reality or as a haunting vision of possible or plausible future. The satanic dimension of these scenes is depicted with such artistic skill that it gives them archetypal depth. Skulls and bones morph into sexual organs or parts of machines and vice versa to such degree and so smoothly that the resulting images portray with equal symbolic power sexual rapture, violence, agony, and death. Equally extraordinary is the way in which Giger blended deviant sexuality with violence and with emblems of death. In his inimitable style, he masterfully merged elements of dangerous mechanical contraptions of the technological world with various parts of human anatomy-arms, legs, faces, breasts, bellies, and genitals. The entanglement of humans and machines has been over the years the leitmotif in his paintings, drawings, and sculptures. ![]() The empires of the drug lords and the vicious battle for the lucrative black market with narcotics on all its levels contributed significantly to the already escalating crime rate and brought violence into the underground and streets of many modern cities.Īll these essential elements of the twentieth century’s Zeitgeist are present in an inextricable amalgam in Giger’s biomechanoid art. ![]() The use of hard drugs-heroin, cocaine, crack, and amphetamines-reached astronomic proportions and escalated into a global epidemic. ![]() The stress and excessive demands of modern life, alienation, and loss of deeper meaning of life and of spiritual values engendered in many people a consuming need to escape and seek pleasure and oblivion. Giger and the Zeitgeist of the Twentieth Century,” included in Modern Consciousness Research and the Understanding of Art, by Stanislav Grof, M.D., recently published by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). The following is excerpted from the essay “H.R.
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