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 Bauhaus: Treat shapes and letters as the same building blocks
- Type
- Set in Bauhaus's manner (Geometric sans-serif), and let New Vision Photography's lettering (Align added lettering to the picture diagonal, off the horizontal) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Bauhaus's material (Red, blue and yellow held together by black and off-white); bring in exactly one thing from New Vision Photography (Hard direct light, strong shadow, black and white with the blacks closed).
- Colour
- Build on #eee7d4, #df2c22, #153f8c and admit one accent from #e5e3dc, #8b8f92, #151719.
Where they fight
- Bauhaus and New Vision Photography share no intent, so the contrast has to become the subject rather than something to smooth over.
Caution
- Bauhaus Scattered shapes read as childish. Give every element a job.
- New Vision Photography If the angle changes but reveals nothing about the subject, the picture becomes a shape nobody can name and the surprise is spent at first glance.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Bauhaus (Style, 1919–1933) and its accent from New Vision Photography (Style, 1920s–1930s). Structural cues: Elementary shapes; Primary colors; Functional beauty; Visible structure. Accent cues, used sparingly: Steep angles; Close-up; Hard light and shadow; Abstraction. Composition: Treat shapes and letters as the same building blocks. Type and lettering: Geometric sans-serif. Let one material quality come from the second style: Hard direct light, strong shadow, black and white with the blacks closed. Mood: Trust, Play, Technology, Futurism, Exhilaration. Color: build on #eee7d4, #df2c22, #153f8c with a single accent drawn from #e5e3dc, #8b8f92, #151719. 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
- Bauhaus 1919–1933 / Style / Functionalism
Makes function and play coexist through the circle, triangle and square.
- New Vision Photography 1920s–1930s / Style / Photography Movements
Looks for perception only a camera can produce, using views from far above and far below, extreme close-ups and experiments with light.
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