RE: The blocktrades contest | [CR] Return
That's a sexy explorer there, with a very '70s cultural outfit but the teeming hopes of both the '70s and the ray-punk era from the '20s. I must say that the 80s-90s grid-line æsthetics meshed in with the pure black-and-white æsthetics worked well, especially with how cartoon-like the lass explorer be. Though even then, there's this slight influence of realism that works well in this art's favor as it anchors it to the morning show æsthetics seen at the time while respecting the sci-fi setting.
Even for an contest piece, it very much shouts a positive reflection and influence of both the '70s sci-fi era along with the ray-punk æsthetics and enthusiasm of the '20s while beaming the 80's/90's grid-line æsthetics. And, funnily enough, within the Global North at least, it was already paraded in Socialist blocs, there was the major push for female characters. With shows like Star Trek, Star Wars (later on I know), general Sci-Fi and the what not. And they all reflected the great attitude of the '60s when radical movements where at their height in both frustration and organization against the Social Order they had to live under.
One of them, other than the vast amount I wish to list rn, would be both the Feminist movements, particularly Second-wave Feminism. Figures like Existentialist (and friend of Jean-Paul Sartre) Simone de Beauvoir and Friedan, though more with Beauvoir, would inspire the Second Wave to take action and to fight for their rights they've been long denied. Call them successes or not, the culture of the Global North couldn't continue its old slog and we would see the frustrations still living on past the '60s. For which, TV shows could capitalize on the new audience that now had to include women and would attempt to include women as a means to increase their ratings and revenue. However 'tis a shame we still have to ask ourselves if women characters "are appropriate" when we didn't necessarily question the inclusion of women characters in the '70s that much as we do now. And this a trend not to ignore of course.
Oh my. That is certainly one of the best comments I have received on Steemit.
I am so grateful that you wrote me such a long comment to articulate your well thought of point of view. I am not familiar with some of these names, so I am doubly thankful because it's always good when I learn something new.
You are right of course, there was the feminist movement that underlied the artistic choice of what creators put out in the comics and movies of the 1970s. And I have a lot of things to say also about women representation in art, I hope they are communicated well in my art. Since I'm clumsy with words, I'm one of those who prefer to show than tell.
Thank you very much, Felix :).