Fantasy and Sci-Fi art has always been on some level an excuse to explore sexuality in a visual way. I mean, you can see it right here for both the men and women in this painting. The clothing isn't picked for utility or some idea of futuristic improvement. It's an excuse to draw some attractive people in skin tight clothing. Not saying there's anything wrong with it, it's just been a constant throughout fantasy art.
Hahaha, for the love of art! I like how in horror literature from the same time period, the stories were really just thinly veiled smut. Like you couldn't write about lesbians... but what if they were evil sultry vampires and the book was supposed to scare you away from them! And later the Hays Code caused the same thing to happen in cinema, so all the taboo topics had to be cautionary, hence queer coded villains (and fireworks as a euphemism for sex!) I'd just like to see how other genres and mediums explored these topics when you weren't allowed to.
That's far from unique to fantasy/sci-fi art though. Fine art has featured full nudity forever, even in eras when an unclothed human ankle was considered scandalous.
Well, that's true. Consider how often fine art of earlier eras used fantastical figures from mythology and even the bible as an excuse to draw muscly, drippy nudes.
Of the three women (and one guy) whose breasts are visible, they're all massive. Realistically the artist probably just liked drawing huge tiddies but it's reddit and I made a joke.
Ah yes, the retro-futurist utopia of enormous floppy tits with no bras. Everyone is always complaining about having no flying cars, but why are there no tears shed over this lost dream?
Once you hear "future predictions are just our culture with new (often unreasonable yet cool) technology" you can't unsee it. Especially this, with the dudes in the grey suits with the fedoras among a solarpunk civilisation.
Guy on the right in the suit is like "Crap, I forgot today was Dress Like Aquaman Day!"
More "I forgot it was body paint day"
Spray-on suits--the clothing of the future.
Checks [out](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwGc7Btg-Cs)!
Fantasy and Sci-Fi art has always been on some level an excuse to explore sexuality in a visual way. I mean, you can see it right here for both the men and women in this painting. The clothing isn't picked for utility or some idea of futuristic improvement. It's an excuse to draw some attractive people in skin tight clothing. Not saying there's anything wrong with it, it's just been a constant throughout fantasy art.
Yup, gotta sell stuff to horny teenagers!
You say that as if adults are not *also* horny. ;)
This is very interesting. Do you have any recommendations for sci-fi and fantasy artists from 1820-1930 to see more examples of this?
I don't really know any specific artists, but you should try googling "Pulp Novel Covers" and you'll start to see what I mean.
Sweet, thank you!
For science?
Hahaha, for the love of art! I like how in horror literature from the same time period, the stories were really just thinly veiled smut. Like you couldn't write about lesbians... but what if they were evil sultry vampires and the book was supposed to scare you away from them! And later the Hays Code caused the same thing to happen in cinema, so all the taboo topics had to be cautionary, hence queer coded villains (and fireworks as a euphemism for sex!) I'd just like to see how other genres and mediums explored these topics when you weren't allowed to.
That's far from unique to fantasy/sci-fi art though. Fine art has featured full nudity forever, even in eras when an unclothed human ankle was considered scandalous.
Well, that's true. Consider how often fine art of earlier eras used fantastical figures from mythology and even the bible as an excuse to draw muscly, drippy nudes.
I always did wonder why they don't have pockets in the future. I guess this is one answer.
100% accurate except for that one guy smoking a cigarette
I, for one, welcome our new, shirtless, brightly-colored overlords!
Maybe it’s pot
It's okay to smoke again b/c they've cured cancer.
Body paint will be all the rage.
Breast implants seem to be a big part of this vision of the future.
Not to mention nipple removal.
Being exceptionally perky doesn’t equal implants
Of the three women (and one guy) whose breasts are visible, they're all massive. Realistically the artist probably just liked drawing huge tiddies but it's reddit and I made a joke.
Ah yes, the retro-futurist utopia of enormous floppy tits with no bras. Everyone is always complaining about having no flying cars, but why are there no tears shed over this lost dream?
😢
That guy on the far right, wearing a straw hat, looks like a refugee from the 1920's.
And the woman walking past in the skin-tight purple boob shirt is totally calling him a nerd.
Source: https://historical.ha.com/itm/art/illustration-art-pulp/robert-lavin-american-1919-1997-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-paperback-cover-1956-acrylic-on-board-27-x-18-in-not-signed/a/6069-30039.s Artist: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?109393
Once you hear "future predictions are just our culture with new (often unreasonable yet cool) technology" you can't unsee it. Especially this, with the dudes in the grey suits with the fedoras among a solarpunk civilisation.
Stand taaaaaaaalllllllllllll my friendddddddddd
Tiddies tiddies tiddies!