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 Antropofagia: One swollen figure dominating the field, the borrowed reference still legible underneath it.
- Type
- Set in Antropofagia's manner (A European display face redrawn until its proportions no longer belong to it.), and let Neo-Concrete Art's lettering (Run type across the fold so it resolves only when opened) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Antropofagia's material (Saturated primaries and tropical greens laid flat, mixed without hiding where each came from.); bring in exactly one thing from Neo-Concrete Art (Thin metal or board with hinges tuned to move under the hand's weight).
- Colour
- Build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 and admit one accent from #ece5ce, #d95b37, #315f86.
Where they fight
- Both belong to Brazilian Avant-garde, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.
Caution
- Antropofagia Treating it as a licence to sample freely: the point is digestion, and a collage that leaves its sources intact is quotation rather than appetite.
- Neo-Concrete Art Read it through the revolt against objectivism and the transformation the viewer's body performs, not as Brazilian geometric abstraction, and note that fragile moving parts go untouched and leave only ornament.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Antropofagia (Aesthetic, 1928–1930s) and its accent from Neo-Concrete Art (Style, 1959–1966). Structural cues: The deliberate digestion of imported styles; Mixture with indigenous imagery; Motifs of the enlarged body; Primary colours and a tropical range. Accent cues, used sparingly: Movable geometry; Bodily participation; Folds and hinges; Sensuous color and space. Composition: One swollen figure dominating the field, the borrowed reference still legible underneath it.. Type and lettering: A European display face redrawn until its proportions no longer belong to it.. Let one material quality come from the second style: Thin metal or board with hinges tuned to move under the hand's weight. Mood: Rebellion, Play, Exhilaration, Intimacy. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #ece5ce, #d95b37, #315f86. 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
- Antropofagia 1928–1930s / Aesthetic / Brazilian Avant-garde
A Brazilian programme that took cannibalism as its metaphor: do not refuse European culture, eat it and turn it into your own blood. Its affirmation of mixture as a method rather than a weakness has run underneath Brazilian design, music and architecture ever since.
- Neo-Concrete Art 1959–1966 / Style / Brazilian Avant-garde
Releases geometric abstraction from a fixed visual order and opens the work to touching, moving and entering, so that it becomes an experience that changes as the body takes part.
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