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 Atelier Populaire: Two elements only, a figure and a line, the rest left bare white
- Type
- Set in Atelier Populaire's manner (Near-handdrawn bold letters, one short line filling the sheet), and let Chicano Art's lettering (Hand drawn brush script or blackletter for headings, English and Spanish at the same size) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Atelier Populaire's material (One silkscreen color on cheap stock, misregistration accepted); bring in exactly one thing from Chicano Art (Four screens at most, outlines on a black plate, printed cheap for paper or wall).
- Colour
- Build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 and admit one accent from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615.
Where they fight
- Both belong to Printmaking and Social Movements, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.
Caution
- Atelier Populaire Once a signature and a price are attached the principle drains away and only a protest-looking graphic is left standing.
- Chicano Art Lifting the lettering and the saints as decoration: the imagery belongs to a specific movement and community, and taken away from that it reads as costume.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Atelier Populaire (Style, May–June 1968) and its accent from Chicano Art (Style, 1965–). Structural cues: One-color silkscreen; Simplified figures; Declarative slogans; Anonymous mass production. Accent cues, used sparingly: The narrative composition of the mural; Aztec and Catholic imagery placed side by side; Bilingual lettering; The strong flat colour of silkscreen. Composition: Two elements only, a figure and a line, the rest left bare white. Type and lettering: Near-handdrawn bold letters, one short line filling the sheet. Let one material quality come from the second style: Four screens at most, outlines on a black plate, printed cheap for paper or wall. Mood: Rebellion, Exhilaration, Intimacy. 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
- Atelier Populaire May–June 1968 / Style / Printmaking and Social Movements
In the Paris uprising of May '68 students occupied the art school and ran its print workshop. One-color silkscreens, simple figures and declarative slogans came off the press nightly under rules of anonymity, no sale and street posting, which became the prototype of protest graphics.
- Chicano Art 1965– / Style / Printmaking and Social Movements
An expression born out of the Mexican American civil rights movement. Murals, silkscreened posters, lowriders and lettering form one continuous vocabulary, and Aztec imagery, Catholic devotional figures and mixed English-Spanish lettering share a single surface. A case in which a movement produced a style.
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