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 Arte Povera: Set the work on the floor and refuse the plinth and the spotlight.
- Type
- Set in Arte Povera's manner (Let the title be a list of the materials, with no metaphor added.), and let Conceptual Art's lettering (Plain office grade type presenting the definition exactly as written) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Arte Povera's material (Earth, wax, cloth, metal and living plants, worked as little as possible.); bring in exactly one thing from Conceptual Art (Cheap carriers such as photostats, typescript, index cards and wall writing).
- Colour
- Build on #d8d0bd, #83755f, #312e28 and admit one accent from #efede7, #898986, #1d1d1c.
Where they fight
These two are already listed as related, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Arte Povera Do not reduce this to the mood of aged materials, and keep its critique of value, time, labor and institution. Over conditioning the display turns the work into an unchanging specimen.
- Conceptual Art Styling the surface to look administrative without a rule or question anyone can test leaves only curt graphic design. Change what counts as the work, including structure, site and the relation to the audience.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Arte Povera (Style, 1967–1970s) and its accent from Conceptual Art (Style, mid-1960s–1970s). Structural cues: Non-precious materials; Change and decay; Nature against industry; Bare assembly. Accent cues, used sparingly: Words and definitions; Instructions and rules; Documentary photographs; Dematerialization. Composition: Set the work on the floor and refuse the plinth and the spotlight.. Type and lettering: Let the title be a list of the materials, with no metaphor added.. Let one material quality come from the second style: Cheap carriers such as photostats, typescript, index cards and wall writing. Mood: Rebellion, Calm, Intimacy, Trust. Color: build on #d8d0bd, #83755f, #312e28 with a single accent drawn from #efede7, #898986, #1d1d1c. 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
- Arte Povera 1967–1970s / Style / Italian Avant-garde
Takes up earth, branches, cloth, stone, fire and metal, materials that are neither precious nor stable, and uses them to intervene in the commodification of art and the values of industrial society.
- Conceptual Art mid-1960s–1970s / Style / Postwar American Art
Puts the idea at the center of the work and presents it through words, definitions, rules, documentation and placement, caring little for finish as an object.
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