Compose two styles
Rather than blending two styles into a middle, this assigns them roles: one carries the structure, the other appears as an accent. Where the two fight, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow Aeropittura: Set the horizon tilted or overturned and run the vortex through the centre
- Type
- Set in Aeropittura's manner (Letters shrunk along the perspective and tilted together with the ground), and let Italian Futurism's lettering (Treat differing weights, widths and angles as volume) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Aeropittura's material (Cool colours keyed to a metallic sheen, with streaks of cloud white through them); bring in exactly one thing from Italian Futurism (Black and off-white with one warning color).
- Colour
- Build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 and admit one accent from #eee4ce, #20201e, #d44531.
Where they fight
These two are already listed as related, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Aeropittura 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.
- Italian Futurism Never split the movement's innovation from its embrace of war and Fascism; handle it critically.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Aeropittura (Style, 1929–1939) and its accent from Italian Futurism (Style, 1909–1940s). Structural cues: Plunging perspective; Whirling cloud and atmosphere; Ground inverted and rotating; Colour suggesting metallic sheen. Accent cues, used sparingly: Words-in-freedom; Radiating type; Onomatopoeia; Extreme jumps in scale. Composition: Set the horizon tilted or overturned and run the vortex through the centre. Type and lettering: Letters shrunk along the perspective and tilted together with the ground. Let one material quality come from the second style: Black and off-white with one warning color. Mood: Futurism, Exhilaration, Technology, Rebellion. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #eee4ce, #20201e, #d44531. 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.
Related entries
- Aeropittura 1929–1939 / Style / Italian Avant-garde
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.
- Italian Futurism 1909–1940s / Style / Avant-garde
Converts speed, noise and shock into the size and trajectory of letters, setting the quiet page in motion.
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