# Antropofagia × Tropicália — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=antropofagia+tropicalia
# Antropofagia carries the structure. Tropicália appear as accents, each further back than the last.
# Style descriptors only. Never imitates a specific artist, studio, brand or work.

An original image that takes its structure from Antropofagia (Aesthetic, 1928–1930s) and its accent from Tropicália (Style, mid-1960s–). Structural cues: The deliberate digestion of imported styles; Mixture with indigenous imagery; Motifs of the enlarged body; Primary colours and a tropical range. Accent cues, used sparingly: Blazing hybridity; Participatory space; Music and costume; The tropical image inverted. Composition: One swollen figure dominating the field, the borrowed reference still legible underneath it.. Type and lettering: A European display face redrawn until its proportions no longer belong to it.. Let one material quality come from the second style: Sand, raw wood, cloth, temporary boards and primary paint left rough. Mood: Rebellion, Play, Exhilaration. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #f0d33c, #d64b37, #2d756c. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.

# Where the two fight
# - Both belong to Brazilian Avant-garde, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - Antropofagia: Treating it as a licence to sample freely: the point is digestion, and a collage that leaves its sources intact is quotation rather than appetite.
# - Tropicália: Reducing it to colorful tropical taste reproduces the tourist paradise it set out to criticize, so the Brazilian military regime, the favelas and the political mixing of music and art have to be read.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/antropofagia/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/tropicalia/design.md