Dystopian Surrealism and Its Expression Through the Medium

Dystopian Surrealism and It’s Expression Through the Medium of Album Covers Hope Patrun Sarah Glew Liam Mallinson

Contents Definition of the movement Artists of the movement HR Giger Zdzisław Beksiński Storm Thorgerson Conclusion Questions

Dystopian Surrealism “Surrealism aimed to revolutionise human experience, rejecting a rational vision of life in favour of one that asserted the value of the unconscious and dreams. The movement’s poets and artists found magic and strange beauty in the unexpected and the uncanny, the disregarded and the unconventional. ” (Tate, 2018) Tate, T. A. G. , Surrealism – Art Term. Tate. Available at: https: //www. tate. org. uk/art-terms/s/surrealism [Accessed October 19, 2018].

HR Giger By Sarah Glew • (Essers, 2018) Born in Switzerland in 1940. • Studied Architecture and Design, graduating in 1970 • Influenced by various artists such as H. P Lovecreaft and Salvador Dali. • Specialised in airbrushing • Strong erotic imagery and biomechanical visuals Essers, F. (2018). HR Giger Museum. [online] Hrgigermuseum. com. Available at: http: //www. hrgigermuseum. com/index 2. php? option=bio [Accessed 23 Oct. 2018].

“Hallucinations” Atrocity (1990) • Portrays the sexual abuse of a young girl and her later death due to drug abuse. • Inspired by Dali’s “The Great Masturbator” • Twisting and degeneration the inspiration source • Plasticity. Various (2018). <center>Giger’s Homage To S. Beckett (1968) inspired by Dali’s The Great Masturbator</center>. [online] Alienexplorations. blogspot. com. Available at: http: //alienexplorations. blogspot. com/1970/03/gigers-homage-to-sbeckett-1968 -inspired. html [Accessed 23 Oct. 2018].

“How the Gods Kill” - Danzig III • Portrays search for self identity and frustrations caused by organised religion • Adaptation of Giger’s 1976 painting Meister und Margeritha” (“Master and Margarita“) • Inspired by Russian novel ‘Mikhail Bulgakov’ • Themes of sexual liberation • Heavy biblical influences Go Venue Magazine. (2018). Album Review: How The Gods Kill 25 years Later - Go Venue Magazine. [online] Available at: https: //www. govenuemagazine. com/album-review-how-the-gods-kill-25 years-later/ [Accessed 26 Oct. 2018].

Zdzisław Beksiński By Hope Patrun • Born in Sanok, Poland on the 24 th February 1929. • Died in Warsaw, Poland on the 21 st February 2005. • Specialised in painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, digital art and graphic. • Graduated with a diploma in architectural engineering and an M. Sc in the Technical Science. https: //9 gag. com/gag/a. K 3 m 6 pj/12 -facts-you-should-know-about-zdzislaw-beksinski-and-some-of-his-surreal-paintings

Khthoniik Cerviiks – Heptaedrone (2014) • The album cover features an alternative version of a famous art work by Beksiński from 1973. • The album cover has red washed the art piece to indicate looming fear and ravenous decay. https: //toiletovhell. com/beksinski-and-heavy-metal-a-surreal-love-story/

Antestor – Omen (2012) • The album cover for Antestor’s by Omen uses an untitled Beksiński painting from 1983. • In HM Magazine issue 163, the band commented on the cover “The cover shows a half human, half the cover monster apparition with almost unlimited amounts of fingers and knuckles playing a single instrument, heralding and announcing with its music. In very many ways, Antestor is just like this apparition. Our music represents the more broken and monster-like feelings of our humanity, like the apparition in this picture. It seemed a very fitting cover for our return after seven years of silence. ”. https: //toiletovhell. com/beksinski-and-heavy-metal-a-surreal-love-story/

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