Somewhere far, far away, between J. M. W. Turner and Analytical Cubism...
The gorgeous space art of John Berkey (1932–2008)—a few more here: instagram.com/p/CA7Qo8znLj-/
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In 1975, young George Lucas purchased several pieces of Berkey's sci-fi artwork, which served him as visual reference material while he was trying to pitch his ideas to film studios for a new space fantasy film...
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Among those pictures was one of a rocket-plane diving down through space towards a gigantic mechanical planet. This image had been used as cover art for the 1972 reprint of the short story anthology Star Science Fiction Stories No. 4 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Berk
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And so, in a sense, Star Wars began among these skies by Turner...
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When (unmilitarized) spaceships become a wild utopia of colours and irrepressible shapes—John Berkey
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Really interesting. Reminded me of an article I read about Googie architecture, which was the 60s rush for the spaceage vibe. Dug it out, might be of interest :
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