Alien: HR Giger's Life Cycle Hieroglyphics Tableau

leading from

HR Giger's art
and
Alien: Afterthoughts

Hieroglyphics painting as seen in the
Shepperton Studios' Art Department

Original life cyle tableau, 1978

 

 

 

a) References Dresden Codex's influence on Ron Cobb life cycle hieroglyphics?

a.i) See: Dresden Codex's influence on Ron Cobb life cycle hieroglyphics?

 

 

a.ii) See also: Ron Cobb's Birth Temple illustration as a starting point?

 

 
b) References Giger's own earlier Biomechanical Landscape work (312)?

 

 

 

c) See also: Comparison to Ancient Egyptian art

d) References Ernst Fuch's Triumph Of The Unicorn via   William Onyeabor "Crashes in Love" album cover design?

d.i) See: Album cover of William Onyeabor's "Crashes in Love" (1977) references Ernst Fuch's Triumph Of The Unicorn?  

 

 

d.ii) See: William Onyeabor "Crashes in Love" album cover (1977) referenced in Giger's Alien Life Cycle Hieroglyphics (1978)?

e) Radio Times imagery

e.i) See:  References Radio Times May 16th 1968 FA Cup Final cover illustration?

 

 

e.ii) See: References the Radio Times 10th-16th June 1961 cover?

 

f) See:  References: Chesley Bonestell's "STONE ARCHITECTURE ON MARS, DEMONSTRATING MARS' TWO-THIRDS LESS GRAVITY THAN EARTH'S."?

g) See: References poster for the movie The Pink Panther Strikes Again (released 15th December 1976 (US)) directed by Blake Edwards?

h) See: References Illustration of the Celestial Arishem, leader of the fourth host from The Eternals vol 1 #2 (August 1976) by Jack Kirby?

 

i) See: References Dürer's "Adoration of the Magi" via "The Promenade on Horseback by Degas via "The Borogoves, Toves and the Raths" from Alice Through The Looking Glass by Tenniel via Fuch's "Job and the Judgement of Paris" ?

 

 

 

j) See: Alien: Variations of Giger's Life Cycle Hieroglyphics painting

 

k) See: Placement of the Life Cycle Tableau

 

 

 

l) See: Giger's life cycle hieroglyphs according to Giger's biographer Herbert M Hurka 

 

 

 

 

 

 

m) See: Mythologist Will Linn's comments from the documentary "Memory: The Origins of Alien"

 

 

 

 

n) See: Ian Nathan's Alien Vault and the Alien Life Cycle Hieroglyphics

 

 

 

 

 

o) See: Alien Life Cycle Hieroglyphs according to Shonky Lab podcast

 

 

p) See: Alien Life Cycle Hieroglyphs according to Rob Ager of "Collative Learning"

 

 

 

 

 

q) See: Alien Life Cycle Hieroglyphs according to 'SciFi Explained"

 

 

 

 

 

r) See: Alien Life Cycle Hieroglyphs according to Christopher Robinson as published in L'art et la science dans Alien

 

 

 

 

s) See:  HR Giger: The theme of Nut the Sky Goddess involved in Giger choice of grave stone