# Dada × Photomontage — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=dada+photomontage
# Dada carries the structure. Photomontage 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 Photomontage (Technique, 1910s–). Structural cues: Rotated type; Fragments of sound; Collisions of scale; Unbalanced margins. Accent cues, used sparingly: Cut-out photographs; Mixed scales; Visible seams; Reused print matter. 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: Magazine and newspaper cuttings, paste, rephotography, seams kept or hidden. Mood: Rebellion, Play, Exhilaration. Color: build on #efe6d0, #d7362f, #161513 with a single accent drawn from #e6dfd0, #b83b2f, #1d1b19. 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.
# - Photomontage: Copying only the cutting and pasting leaves fragments side by side with no collision, and the criticism the method existed for never lands.

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