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 Nouveau Réalisme's lettering (Fragments of existing typography, whatever survives the tear, never a face chosen for the job) 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 Nouveau Réalisme (Mass identical real objects, or paste and tear paper so the lower printings show).
- Colour
- Build on #d8d0bd, #83755f, #312e28 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
- 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.
- Nouveau Réalisme Simulating the torn poster with a distress filter: the movement's entire claim is that the material was taken and not made, and a synthetic tear reverses it.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Arte Povera (Style, 1967–1970s) and its accent from Nouveau Réalisme (Style, 1960–1970). Structural cues: Non-precious materials; Change and decay; Nature against industry; Bare assembly. Accent cues, used sparingly: Layers of posters torn back; Accumulations of identical objects; Compressed industrial products; Material chosen rather than worked. 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: Mass identical real objects, or paste and tear paper so the lower printings show. Mood: Rebellion, Calm, Intimacy, Technology, Exhilaration. Color: build on #d8d0bd, #83755f, #312e28 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
- 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.
- Nouveau Réalisme 1960–1970 / Style / Postwar Abstract Painting
A group that declared, in Paris in 1960, the direct appropriation of reality. Layers of torn posters, compressed car bodies and accumulated refuse make the city itself into the work without passing through depiction. The stance of selecting material rather than working it laid the ground for all later assemblage.
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