• Empire of the Sun artwork
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Steampunk is the perfect marriage of the past and the future in full retrofied glory. Heavily influenced by Victorian-era aesthetics, an alternate history where a world that’s still powered by steam is able to create technologies that rival our futuristic imaginations aliante casino movies.

Who would have thought that a chemical element could come to represent an entire decade? One of the most iconic styles of the 1980s, Neon was used everywhere – from film posters to album covers to video games. And it’s back to light up 2020! This year we’ve seen the neon trend used by big brands such as Nike in this video billboard and BMW in their Motorsport Sim Racing opener.

Speaking of music… in the early-1960s, 50s rock and roll was gradually overtaken by pop, psychedelic rock, blues rock, and folk rock, which continued to grow in popularity well into the 70s. A decade defined by iconic artists such as The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix, the 1960s was a massive turning point for musical expression.

A decade defined by bright colors, fluid patterns and LSD-inspired psychedelia, the 1960s were a massive turning point for graphic design. Moving away from the pin-up style, earth tones and intermittent splashes of color that dominated design in the 1950s, the 60s saw designers dipping their artistic wands into more creative, experimental styles.

Empire of the Sun artwork

While the images allow increasing passages of time between events and the photographs that reflect on them – “made moments after the events they depict, then those made days after, then months, years and so on” – there settles in the pit of the stomach some unremitting melancholy, some unholy dread as to the brutal facticity and inhumanness of war. The work which “pictures” the memory of the events that took place, like a visual ode of remembrance, are made all the more powerful for their transcendence – of time, of death and the immediate detritus of war.

On the back of the black cover box are written rhyming words that are almost impossible to read. The front cover shows that the words are about to burn out. Inside, the pages are laid out as hinged double fold-out spreads. The repetition of the act of opening and closing makes the images appear and disappear. I wanted to have a book design as a new object and something that goes beyond the contents. With the rich and chaotic nature of monochrome, it might be that I tried to find my early style within the illusion of reality by abstracting the phenomenon. As an observer, I would like to keep forcing myself into the future, never losing the sense of danger which emerges in the conflicts of daily life. I wish to harmonise my old distorted maps with the heartbeat of this exhibition at Tate Modern, twisting across the bridges of the centuries through conflicting space and time.

Chloe Dewe Mathews (British, b. 1982) Former Abattoir, Mazingarbe, Nord-Pas-de-Calais 2013 Eleven British soldiers were executed here between 1915-1918 From the series Shot at Dawn © Chloe Dewe Mathews

While the images allow increasing passages of time between events and the photographs that reflect on them – “made moments after the events they depict, then those made days after, then months, years and so on” – there settles in the pit of the stomach some unremitting melancholy, some unholy dread as to the brutal facticity and inhumanness of war. The work which “pictures” the memory of the events that took place, like a visual ode of remembrance, are made all the more powerful for their transcendence – of time, of death and the immediate detritus of war.

On the back of the black cover box are written rhyming words that are almost impossible to read. The front cover shows that the words are about to burn out. Inside, the pages are laid out as hinged double fold-out spreads. The repetition of the act of opening and closing makes the images appear and disappear. I wanted to have a book design as a new object and something that goes beyond the contents. With the rich and chaotic nature of monochrome, it might be that I tried to find my early style within the illusion of reality by abstracting the phenomenon. As an observer, I would like to keep forcing myself into the future, never losing the sense of danger which emerges in the conflicts of daily life. I wish to harmonise my old distorted maps with the heartbeat of this exhibition at Tate Modern, twisting across the bridges of the centuries through conflicting space and time.

Chloe Dewe Mathews (British, b. 1982) Former Abattoir, Mazingarbe, Nord-Pas-de-Calais 2013 Eleven British soldiers were executed here between 1915-1918 From the series Shot at Dawn © Chloe Dewe Mathews

Original art

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Classic artwork

This painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder depicts the incredible construction of the Tower of Babel. The painting features numerous arches and portrays the real essence of Roman engineering. Bruegel visited Rome and studied the Roman ruins before attempting the painting to show its true layers and the ascending spiral design.

This painting is celebrated for its complex play of gaze, reflection, and the ambiguities of modern urban life. It showcases Manet’s masterful manipulation of perspective and is frequently studied for its nuanced portrayal of gender roles and social dynamics.

The Astronomer has several pictorial elements of compositions that are carefully fused together by the creative painter, Johannes Vermeer. The painting is a very interesting portrayal of an astronomer’s profession, which is shown through a celestial globe, as well as the book on the table. The popularity of the painting is based on the pure depiction of scientific investigations in the 16th century.

It is also interesting to note that this scientifically inspired painting also has religious elements to it. The book, Institutiones Astronomicae Geographicae, is open to a section advising that the astronomer seeks inspiration from God.

The melting clocks in a dream landscape represent the idea that time is relative and fleeting. It has been seen as a commentary on mortality and life’s impermanence, capturing the feeling of life’s fragility.