# Dada × Lettrism — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=dada+lettrism
# Dada carries the structure. Lettrism 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 Dada (Style, 1916–1920s) and its accent from Lettrism (Style, 1946–1970s). Structural cues: Rotated type; Fragments of sound; Collisions of scale; Unbalanced margins. Accent cues, used sparingly: Surfaces paved with unreadable characters; Handwriting mixed with type; Hypergraphy of proliferating signs; Letters handled as painterly material. Composition: Keep one reading path; rotate and sever the rest. Type and lettering: Collide weights, directions and cases in one plane. Let one material quality come from the second style: Ink, paint and scratched film or paper—letters applied as physical marks. Mood: Rebellion, Play, Exhilaration, Technology. Color: build on #efe6d0, #d7362f, #161513 with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. 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.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - Dada: Not decorative messiness. Decide which authority or custom you are objecting to.
# - Lettrism: Laying out unreadable letters as decoration alone drops the claim and leaves pattern. One legible word left in the field reinstates the meaning the work exists to suspend.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/dada/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/lettrism/design.md