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Created on September 29, 2022

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Imagery

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Can you describe what you can see?
What could be the purpose of this image?
Universal History Archive/UIG/Bridgeman Images.
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Choose three questions to think about. Have your opinions ready!
Why is the hand so big and red?
What is the hand doing?
Why did the artist make the hand open like this?
Why is the hand pointing upwards?
Do you know what language the text is in?
What do you think the words say?
Universal History Archive/UIG/Bridgeman Images.
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The language is Russian. The words translate as:
REVEAL
Universal History Archive/UIG/Bridgeman Images.
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The language is Russian. The words translate as:
Be proud, Soviet man, you have opened the way to the stars from Earth.
REVEAL
Universal History Archive/UIG/Bridgeman Images.
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What was the Space Race?
During the 1950s and 1960s, the United States of America and the Soviet Union were involved in a ‘Cold War’. This was not a physical battle, but a war for supremacy - trying to prove which nation was the most powerful.
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They competed over which nation would be the first to travel to space. The end goal was to get a man on the moon!
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What was the Space Race?
The obsession with outer space filtered into everyday life. It was also reflected in the art, design and culture of the time.
Look at these images from the 1960s.
What do you notice about the choice of colours, patterns and styles?
Los Angeles Airport
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Car design
Fabric design
Furniture design
Architecture
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What can you see?
What could be the purpose of this image?
Credit: Look and Learn / Bridgeman Images
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Activity
Stick the image in the centre of a sketchbook page. Evaluate this drawing by:
1. Writing down what you see (facts). Use your knowledge of the formal elements, line, shape, space, form, tone, texture, pattern, colour and composition to help you. For example: The images use mostly blue colours.
2. Writing down your thoughts, opinions and any questions you have. Use the sentence starters to help you: I think... I wonder…
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Retrofuturism

What do you think this means?
EXAMPLE
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Retrofuturism

How society in the past (often pre-1960) imagined or hoped the future (our present) would look like.
What do you think this means?
EXAMPLE
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Retrofuturism

How society in the past (often pre-1960) imagined or hoped the future (our present) would look like.
EXAMPLE
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Private Collection. Photo © GraphicaArtis/Bridgeman Images
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Think about common themes you notice in the imagery we have looked at.
Why do you think people in the past thought the future world would be like the images they produced?
Credit: Look and Learn / Bridgeman Images
Private Collection. Photo © GraphicaArtis/Bridgeman Images
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