HR Giger: N.Y. City II Lovecraft over N.Y. City (work 452) (1980) by HR Giger

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H R Giger's Art
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Radio Times

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Radio Times illustration for At Home With Foxes, 23rd July, 1969 on BBC1, by M Wilson

N.Y. City II Lovecraft over N.Y. City (work 452) (1980) by HR Giger

a) References Mummification Ritual image, with the one form the tomb of Senedjem being a good example?

The scarcophagus becomes the ribbed formation stretching across the bottom of the painting, while the Anubis head becomes the downward facing face suspended in the air above it at the top. For some time I have rested on this general idea waiting for another direction to go, and over time have come to terms of with the idea that it might reference material found in the Radio Times magazine which is a radio and television listings magazine that has been a main household item in England

Depiction of the Embalming Ritual from the tomb of Senedjem

b) See: References Radio Times July 3-9 1976 cover image "Viewing America"?

 

c) See: References Adjusting a TV set photo from Radio Times Monday 6th January 1975.

 

d) See: References image advertising the Pot Black TV series from Radio Times for july 17 1969?

 

 

e) References Photo illustration with Judy Garland for You Made Me Love You from a Radio Times page for the 4th of July 1972?

e.i)  I think in the same way another element of this painting , a photo illustration with Judy Garland for You Made Me Love You from a Radio Times page for the 4th of July 1972.  This on 24th July 2018, I also discovered posted by Graeme Wood on Twitter.  I had noticed elsewhere that Giger had used a frame image with similar enthusiasm

 e.ii) He could play with the different picture frames spacing out the imagery in his composition. 

Judy's arm on the left becomes the spike like form on the lower left.

e.iii) The complete Radio Times page

f) References Radio Times illustration for At Home With Foxes, 23rd July, 1969 on BBC1, by M Wilson?

f.i) References Radio Times illustration for At Home With Foxes, 23rd July, 1969 on BBC1, by M Wilson? I discovered this on 24th July 2018 as well at Graeme Wood's Twitter page. This suggests to me that the animal like head seen from the side on the left in Giger's painting might as well be a fox  It helps to expand on the idea of the painting explore family merging together considering this vixen with her cubs merged into a twisted mass and the American family from the Radio Times "Viewing America" cover

(Source: https://twitter.com/woodg31/status/1021435666830413825)

f.ii) The complete Radio Times page

g) References Max Ernst's Temptation of St Anthony from 1945

g.i) 13th August 2018, I have the urge to reaching out to compare the painting also to some tendril filled Max Ernst painting of some sort, I suddenly pick out his Temptation of St Anthony from 1945 which I don't recall seeing before and slowly cave in to accept it.

g.ii) Two images side by side. It's not easy to really describe anything for comparison, but for a start the upper leg on the upper side of the figure in the red robe becomes the raised curve in the ribcage structure in the centre. 

 

The ruin of a tower in the centre of the background becomes the upper central head, while the canopy up on the upper right becomes the horizontal abstract body of that head.. 

 

Those are two idea, but it would be as if Giger wanted to create something by merging images that he found in the Radio Times while using Max Ernst's painting as a general guide.