Compose styles
Rather than blending styles toward a middle, this gives them roles. The first one carries the structure, the next comes in as the accent, and anything after that shows up in a single detail. Where they fight each other, 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 Rayonism's lettering (Sharp, angular display type set on the diagonal, almost absorbed into the ray structure) 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 Rayonism (A few translucent colors layered over a dark or neutral ground, densest where they cross).
- Colour
- Build on #d5e1e2, #436a98, #1f1e18 and admit one accent from #adaabe, #df9d09, #21201f.
Where they fight
These are already listed as related entries, 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.
- Rayonism 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.
Image prompt
Produce four original images that take their structure from Aeropittura (style, 1929–1939) and their accent from Rayonism (style, 1912–1914). ## What to make Make the kind of thing Aeropittura exists for: aviation, aerospace and mobility work where the brief is the sensation of flight rather than the machine that produces it, or title sequences and transitions built on a diving, rolling camera, for which this painting is effectively a storyboard. Choose one subject and hold it across all four. ## Structure comes from Aeropittura - Plunging perspective - Whirling cloud and atmosphere - Ground inverted and rotating - Colour suggesting metallic sheen 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. ## Accent comes from Rayonism, used sparingly - Sharp bundles of diagonal lines - Planes formed where lines intersect - Disappearance of the object's contour - Layering of a restricted palette Let one material quality come from it: A few translucent colors layered over a dark or neutral ground, densest where they cross. ## Colour and feeling Build the ground on #d5e1e2, carry the structure in #436a98 and #1f1e18, and let a single accent come from #df9d09. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette. Feeling to carry: futurity, exhilaration, technique, calm. ## What goes wrong - 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. - Rayonism: 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. ## Across the four Keep the roles fixed in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows what this pairing can do rather than four versions of one picture. ## Constraints - Do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. - Do not reproduce the composition of an existing work. - Produce original compositions 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.
- Rayonism 1912–1914 / Style / Avant-garde
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.
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