a) The cover of David Bowie’s record album Let’s Dance (1983)
c) Mordor II reversed next to the record cover
d) Comparable areas. If the two are connected then these two small pustule like spheres either side of the phallic form generally become boxing gloves, while the top end of the phallus becomes Bowie’s head, there.
e) Pustule like spheres become boxing gloves
f) The vertical strip down the phallic form becomes the orange gap
h) The penile form becomes David Bowie’s head
i) So we have some abstract forms that become comparable to the shoulder , with the ribbed tubing becoming the silhouette. The ring shape with the T like form in it becomes the right boxing glove.
This is an intriguing comparison between David Bowie’s Let’s Dance cover and H.R. Giger’s Mordor II. Exploring possible visual connections like this makes album cover art especially fascinating for fans of music and contemporary art.
ReplyDeleteIt might be strange to consider how a lot artistic compositions that might even be record album covers might seem to take on the form of something looking inspired by Giger’s work.
ReplyDeleteAnd then once you have a number of different pieces that look at all inspired by the same painting , you can use a commonalities to start imagining something that’s partly a fantastic merger of all these different pieces of artwork, and it might become a good example of something different and new.
But this is the way that art work has possibly partly evolved over the many centuries with people recognising things in other people’s art that means something to them.
For me, it’s interesting to see it happening in near enough the present day, and map out trails where it looks as if various artists have been responding to each other’s work consciously or unconsciously..
So Giger’s art appears to get into so many people’s minds, intentionally or unintentionally, and i like to study his work a lot for similarities with others people’s art.
Perhaps other people not involved with these artists can look, see the similarities and if they want to, near enough join in and draw or paint something that could become popular enough to join different trails.
These days it often helps if it’s an album cover, comic books or film concept art that lots of people will suddenly have a reason to see, or at least becomes some form of media that the public, including myself, will get to see..