HR Giger: Comparisons between details in Anima Mia and Picasso's Guernica

leading from
Pablo Picasso's Guernica
 and


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.



d) Bullhead transforms into split portrait of Mia
The face here in Anima Mia represents Giger's ex-wife Mia Bonzanigo whom he was married to for eighteen months in the eighties. In 1979, she was his assistant during the time of "Alien". In the centre of the painting, a sword symbolically splits her double portrait. The bull head on the far top left has has been transported into the middle, made into a semi humanoid head and divided in two. Dagger blades pierce through the head of the bull in Guernica and the dagger floats between the two halves of the head with the bull horns

e) Fingers transformed into hounds, and the heads further down become mechanical components


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




g) In Guernica the light at the mid top left has been moved to the far right merged with the spikes at the top of the dragon head that is swallowing a human and has turned into the saw wheel on the far right of Anima Mia. The horse's head from beneath the light  in Guernica has been turned around to face the direction of the and the nose of the creature has been turned into a human skull



h) Shapes around bull's head, bull's leg and outstretched dead human transform into a urine flask.

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