![]() ![]() Yet, his opinion about Giger’s place in the world of art and culture is noteworthy: The influential director Oliver Stone is not known for delving into existential darkness. Giger’s morbid artwork work inspired the Xenomorph extraterrestrial in the movie Alien. That Pickman-incarnate was born February 5, 1940, in Chur, Switzerland. ![]() ![]() Lovecraft penned those words in 1926, little did he know that out of the earth’s primal ooze, another man would arise, one who captured the ancestral memories of fright. And Pickman had it as no man ever had it before or- I hope to Heaven- ever will again” (1). “You know, it takes profound art and profound insight into Nature to turn out stuff like Pickman’s…only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear- the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with…hereditary memories of fright, and the proper colour contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness…Doré had it. ![]()
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