Aeropittura vs Rayonism
アエロピットゥーラ / レイヨニスム
Aeropittura comes from Italian Avant-garde and Rayonism from Avant-garde. Both are read here as style. They are reached for with some of the same intent, which is where they get confused.
Aeropittura
The late development of Italian Futurism, which declared the view from an aircraft to be the condition of painting. Plunging perspective, whirling cloud and an earth that turns over fix the sensation of speed and altitude on the canvas. A rare case of a style made out of the height of the viewpoint.
Rayonism
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A Russian abstraction that declared its subject to be not objects themselves but the crossing of light rays reflected from them. Sharp diagonal bundles of lines intersect, dissolving the object into an interference pattern of light. It marked the point where Russian abstraction broke away from Cubism.
| Aeropittura | Rayonism | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | 1929–1939 | 1912–1914 |
| Family | Italian Avant-garde | Avant-garde |
| Kind | Style | Style |
| Cues | Plunging perspective / Whirling cloud and atmosphere / Ground inverted and rotating / Colour suggesting metallic sheen | Sharp bundles of diagonal lines / Planes formed where lines intersect / Disappearance of the object's contour / Layering of a restricted palette |
| Best used for | Aviation, aerospace and mobility work where the brief is the sensation of flight rather than the machine that produces it · Title sequences and transitions built on a diving, rolling camera, for which this painting is effectively a storyboard | Drawing invisible phenomena such as speed or radio waves as bundles of crossing lines · Covers and backgrounds that leave only a trace of the subject without ever depicting it |
| Type | Letters shrunk along the perspective and tilted together with the ground | Sharp, angular display type set on the diagonal, almost absorbed into the ray structure |
| Composition | Set the horizon tilted or overturned and run the vortex through the centre | Assume a light source outside the frame, cross sharp shafts, planes only where they meet |
| Material | Cool colours keyed to a metallic sheen, with streaks of cloud white through them | A few translucent colors layered over a dark or neutral ground, densest where they cross |
| Caution | Simply photographing a landscape from above: the style is not the aerial view but the body's disorientation within it, which requires the horizon to be taken away. | Drawing the object and adding rays on top leaves contours beneath the lines and the dissolution into light fails, and rays that never build planes at their crossings stay mere diagonal decoration. |