The Aesthetics of Steampunk

1. The Beauty of Machinery

The root of steampunk lies in steam technology, mechanical elements are an integral part of steampunk. The beauty of machinery is touchable.  The gears running sound,  the chains pulling sound,  the springs deformation sound, and the machinery roaring,     all these  sounds give the cold steel a rhythm of life, bringing technology closer to people. Allows people to fully imagine and expect things beyond the word "steampunk". This is the rational brilliance brought by technology.

Before the first industrial revolution, people's knowledge of the world was limited. People generally classify things beyond human power as the power of gods, and the advent of technology makes people realize that the world can be controlled and mastered through calculations and quantification. Technology or mechanical power helps humans to rebuild the world. People's identification with mechanical beauty is a manifestation of indulging in the brilliance of reason.

2.  The Beauty of Retro

The concept of steampunk is not a pure imaginary thing, but a transformation based on the real century background. It is set with the background of the Victorian period or a similar era. The Victorian period was the peak of the British Industrial Revolution, and it was also the heyday of Britain. Essentially, it is intuitive content stacked with many retro elements. The most prominent retro-elements are clothing style and urban architecture design back in the old days.

Clothing Style

In the Victorian period, people admired the classic style, and women's clothing was mostly court styles based on lace,  spun yarn, silk, and satin, highlighting the gorgeous and subtle feminine charm of women.

Lace and leather elements

Steampunk&Halloween style accessories

Men’s clothing is mainly based on gentlemanly styles. Most of the costumes are tuxedos and jackets.  In addition, the styles of military uniforms are often used in various countries. Among them, the aviator costume is the most common. Therefore, when it comes to steampunk, many people first came to mind for a moment goggles, gas masks, and pocket watches.

Urban Architecture Design

Steampunk is mostly based on the classical style, Gothic style, and Baroque style. It perfectly reproduces the style of the over-prosperous Victorian era. But for an independent artistic style, the pure reappearance of the times is not enough to become its own special charm. Therefore, steampunk is based on the retro nostalgia of the Victorian period, combined with the aesthetic concepts of modern creators, to carry out subversive restructuring and creation, which is in line with the punk spirit.

Victorian Gothic elements

Steampunk exhibits a rebellious spirit and avant-garde aesthetic pursuit, and this fusion of retro and modern, and the interweaving of classics and punk, is the uniquely bizarre and diverse aesthetic experience of steampunk.

3.  The beauty of patchwork

Patchwork is a technique of artistic expression.  Usually, the scattered,  different materials and distinctive elements are combined together to make it have a unique and novel beauty.

The patchwork style

The patchwork beauty of steampunk manifests itself on multiple levels.  The first is the concrete design,  the splicing combination of fabric silk, and metal ornaments.  Such a splicing combination, on the one hand, brings people a novel feeling, on the other hand, it is different from the products of modern craftsmanship,  which brings people visual and psychological satisfaction. Magic and science coexist, advanced and backward together.

Steampunk brings classical elements into modern fantasy,   blending retro and modern, fantasy and technology, rationality and magical, fine and rough, classic and rebellious, presenting a strong sense of incongruity, with huge tension that gives shock and impact to the vision, as well as a rich aesthetic experience.

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