HR Giger's Anima Mia (1980/81) (work 487)

 

 

leading from

H R Giger's Art
and
Salvador Dali
and
Jack Kirby 
and
"The Treasures of Satan" trail through the 1980s 

a) 14th February 2016: I was aware of Anima Mia for sometime since I bought the book Necronomicon II back in the early 1990s, this painting was created around 1980, The title was used by an Italian pop group I Cugini di Campagna, for their album in in 1972

I recently thought about Pablo Picasso's painting Guernica painted in 1937 and how it could offer HR Giger a landscape of possibilities and so soon I half thought about how he had just about done it with Anima Mia and then today I took a closer look at the two unable to make the connections until realising how much Giger had displaced the various images from Piccasso's work to turn it into something that would work in his own painting. Indeed the experience from Giger's painting is very much different from Picasso's work

 

Anima Mia (1980-81)

 

 

b) See: Comparisons between details in Guernica and Anima Mia

 

 

c) See: Giger's Anima Mia Incorporates Dali's Swans Reflecting Elephants 

 

 

 

 

d) See: Dali's "Debris of an automobile giving birth to a blind horse biting a telephone" (1938) which is a reinterpretation Picasso's Guernica also integrated into Anima Mia

 

 

e) See: Anima Mia references Max Ernst's Celebes

 

 

 

f) See: Anima Mia references Jack Kirby's Dream Machine (1970-1975)

 

 

 

 

g) See: Anima Mia references a engraving of Doctor Faustus

 

 

 

h) See: References "Plane Filling II" (1957) by M.C. Escher?

 

 

i.) See: References Dream (20th October 1961) by Federico Fellini ? 

 

 

 

j) See: Predator 2: Trophy Case references Giger's Anima Mia (work 487) (1980/1981) ?