After two worldbuilding series in which World War II ended worse than it did — one in which the war never ended and another in which the Axis won — let’s try a more optimistic scenario: a world in which World War II never happened.
Here we’ll take our cues from the Indiana Jones movies, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) and the art of Marcos Ceia and Stefan Prohaczka.
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The #dieselpunk art of “Hanamity” is set in an alternate 1920s
“Hanamity” is the alias of a Russian artist. Many of his works are set in an alternative 1920s, straddling the boundary between steampunk and dieselpunk.
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Tamara de Lempicka’s art is a perfect fit for #decopunk
Tamara Łempicka (1898-1980), known as Tamara de Lempicka, was a Polish artist who lived in Paris between the world wars and relocated to the United States in 1939.
Her breakthrough came at the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, which gave its name to the Art Deco movement. She exhibited her paintings in two of the exhibition’s venues, where they were…
The #decopunk art of Paul Catherall
Paul Catherall is a London-based artist who specializes in bold linocuts of architectural landmarks that have a definitive “decodent” quality to them. Paul has worked for such prestigious clients as British Airways, Pallant House Gallery and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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In Andrej Troha’s decopunk universe, the Americas have been unified in a single state, the Soviet Union is investigating strange phenomena in the Arctic and flight has been made impossible by stratospheric nuclear experiments, so monorails and flying cars are now the preferred modes of travel.
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The @decopunk art of Andrej Troha In Andrej Troha’s decopunk universe, the Americas have been unified in a single state, the Soviet Union is investigating strange phenomena in the Arctic and flight has been made impossible by stratospheric nuclear experiments, so monorails and flying cars are now the preferred modes of travel.“Donaguirre” is a German artist whose lovely Art Deco-inspired posters typically implore citizens of the fictional Eldorado to buy war bonds to fund a three-way Cold War with Teutonian Empire in Europe and the Empire of Nikko across the Pacific.
Visit the artist’s profile on DeviantArt to see more.
The #dieselpunk #decopunk art of Donaguirre “Donaguirre” is a German artist whose lovely Art Deco-inspired posters typically implore citizens of the fictional Eldorado to buy war bonds to fund a three-way Cold War with Teutonian Empire in Europe and the Empire of Nikko across the Pacific.There is an obvious Sky Captain influence in Waldemar von Kozak’s art: big flying machines, robots, German villains. It feels more decodence than dark, Piecraftian dieselpunk, reminiscent of midcentury Modern Mechanix and Popular Science covers, yet his is also clearly a world at war.
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The #dieselpunk art of Waldemar von Kozak There is an obvious Sky Captain influence in Waldemar von Kozak’s art: big flying machines, robots, German villains.
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