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 Baroque: An oval as the main axis, funneling the eye before releasing it
- Type
- Set in Baroque's manner (Run lettering along curved surfaces and bands, never as level lines), and let Renaissance's lettering (Set Roman capitals in the proportions of inscriptions.) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Baroque's material (Gold against deep color, hidden side windows carving the relief); bring in exactly one thing from Renaissance (Move from tempera to oil and build up transparent layers.).
- Colour
- Build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 and admit one accent from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615.
Where they fight
- Both belong to Historical Styles, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.
- Roughly 1586 years apart. Keep one of them recognisably period rather than letting both drift into the middle.
Caution
- Baroque Multiplying ornament without designing where the light travels, producing an even excess that is rich and has no climax.
- Renaissance Pasting on columns and symmetry gives you stage scenery. Decide one basis for the proportions and carry it through the whole.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Baroque (Style, 1600–1750) and its accent from Renaissance (Style, 14th–16th century). Structural cues: Ovals and curved surfaces; Dramatic light; Illusionistic ceilings; Architecture fused with sculpture. Accent cues, used sparingly: One point linear perspective; The classical orders and symmetry; Composition based on the proportions of the body; A clear triangular composition. Composition: An oval as the main axis, funneling the eye before releasing it. Type and lettering: Run lettering along curved surfaces and bands, never as level lines. Let one material quality come from the second style: Move from tempera to oil and build up transparent layers.. Mood: Exhilaration, Luxury, Trust, 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
- Baroque 1600–1750 / Style / Historical Styles
A total art that draws the viewer in with ovals, curved surfaces, dramatic light and an excess of ornament. Architecture, sculpture, painting and city planning were handled as one staging, turning power and faith into spectacle.
- Renaissance 14th–16th century / Style / Historical Styles
A movement that rediscovered ancient proportion and the human body and fixed three dimensions on a flat surface through linear perspective. Mathematics became the common language of painting and architecture, and the norms of the next five hundred years, symmetry, the classical orders and the golden ratio, were established here.
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