Picasso's Guernica (1937) and Anima Mia (1980) |
a) Anguished woman with dead baby transforms into a biomechanical witch
Giger has mentioned that the woman on the left side is a biomechanical witch whose hair is entwined to form a crown. In Guernica, an anguished woman is carrying a baby and her bare breasts are on display but this part of the painting developed into an upright body of the witch genitals quite clearly seen as if the dark triangular shovel shape showing the shadow between and beneath her breasts has been transformed into a groin. The testacles of the bull transform into one side of a device to hold her in place
Female torsos in Guernica and Anima Mia |
b) At the moment I am asking myself if the patterns in the hair are inspired by the patterns in the trunk of the world tree depicted in the Pakal Votan tomb lid, and perhaps it could be also the various mouths from Guernica facing different directions (see also comparison to horse's tail in 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)
patterns in the hair are inspired by the patterns in the trunk of the world tree depicted in the Pakal Votan tomb lid? |
c) Floating head with additional formation above transformed into humanoid head with bird heard fused to top. And then its the humanoid head which has been transformed into the bird's head as well with the ear being transformed into a safety pin.
f) Zigzagging
shapes transformed into a black zigzag. A pillar turns into a thin
biomechanoid horse with human skull nose. A sloping form beneath the man
with raised arms, which has triangular teeth like structures almost as
if it's the jaw of the dragon, with the window above it becoming like
its eye, transforms into a long leaf blower perhaps much like we have a
the use of a banal possible leaf blower blowing out insane life forms
in Necronom VI
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h) Shapes around bull's head, bull's leg and outstretched dead human transform into a urine flask. |
HR Giger: Comparisons between details in Anima Mia and Picasso's Guernica created on 28th of February 2016
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