Steampunk is a Victorian science fiction. “Victorian” does not refer to a particular culture, but refers to the nineteenth century of industrialization and the aesthetic taste of then.
In the Nineteenth Century, many major changes have taken place in the world, and steampunk drew a more developed Nineteenth Century on these changes blueprint., such as steam-driven aircraft and mechanical computers.
Steampunk is a compound word consisting of steam and punk. Steam naturally represents large machines powered by steam.
Punk is a non-mainstream marginalized culture, It’s a style of writing in street language dialogue. Its significance is that the style of the theme is independent, not anti-social.
Steampunk is the great variety and has a different appeal to people. Some people because they like Nineteenth Century; Some people like its unique orientation of integrating past machinery and modern technology. Others like to wear a variety of clothes of the 19th century.
Steampunk is extremely diverse, and everyone can have fun in it. The power of retro trends cannot be underestimated, mainstream fashion, movies, and aesthetic self-identity steampunk. This sect has its own life, attracting people from all directions to a world.
Gaby Wormann
Gaby Wormann placed the remnants of horological parts and trinkets to insect specimens such as ladybug, spider, and dragonfly, and they looked like they had just come back from the music festival.
Imagination:
Einstein once said: imagination is more important than knowledge. Steampunk is based on the industrial scientific revolution, show in the space that does not exist in reality. Let players see things that they have never seen before and give them pleasing themes. Its real value is to provide players with a broad imagination, stimulate their imagination, and give them the influence in this regard.
Michihiro Matsuoka
Michihiro Matsuoka is a leader in Japanese steampunk culture in sculpture, installations and other fields. His works have been widely collected by fans from various countries. He is good at using rusty machines and old equipment to create lifelike, steampunk-flavored robotic creatures.
Reminiscence:
British Industry has been developing rapidly since Queen Victoria’s accession to the throne in 1838, The unprecedented prosperity of science, culture, and art. These time are the famous Victorian era, and the British became the only superpower in the world, this is the only time in the history of the British. So until now, this long-lost era is still indulging in elaborating on by many people.
In the Victorian period, more and more middle-class people, elegant luxury became the mainstream of fashion.
Vadim Voitekhovitch
People’s inspiration is always beyond our imagination and amazing. German artist Vadim Voitekhovitch’s oil canvas painting depicts a virtual steampunk world for us: steam-driven massive behemoths run through streets, canals, wharves, and the sky a hundred years ago.
Serve as a link between past and future:
The worldview depicted by steampunk, Another major feature serves as a link between past and future. Modern science has just entered the field of vision, and many common sense issues have not been resolved. Compared to today, people at the time were somewhat foolish. However, it is this backwardness that gives designers more material to choose from. And in some ways, advanced technology can even compete with today. Designers can add some of today’s technology to their own works. This greatly increases the material that the designer can use and enriches the imagination of his and his works.
Gvozdariki
Russian artist Gvozdariki works are filled with thick steampunk flavors. His works are “mechanized” with birds, fish, and animals as their contents.
A patchwork of aesthetics:
Piecing together is one of the obvious characteristics of Post Modernist Aesthetics. It started with architecture, and gradually expanded to film, painting, literature and so on. The development of science and technology enables people to copy many things and copy and stitching together the best things in history. This is a very new style, but there is no some innovation, but it is still very beautiful, very good.
China version steampunk:
To date, the artifacts of the Victorian period have been labeled classicism. It has become an important branch of fashion today. Many designers add some elements of classicism to their works because they are synonymous with elegance and luxury.
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