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 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 #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 and admit one accent from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615.
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.
- 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
An original image that takes its structure from Aeropittura (Style, 1929–1939) and its accent from Rayonism (Style, 1912–1914). Structural cues: Plunging perspective; Whirling cloud and atmosphere; Ground inverted and rotating; Colour suggesting metallic sheen. Accent cues, used sparingly: Sharp bundles of diagonal lines; Planes formed where lines intersect; Disappearance of the object's contour; Layering of a restricted palette. 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: A few translucent colors layered over a dark or neutral ground, densest where they cross. Mood: Futurism, Exhilaration, Technology, Calm. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 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.
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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