Compose styles
Rather than blending styles toward a middle, this gives them roles. The first one carries the structure, the next comes in as the accent, and anything after that shows up in a single detail. Where they fight each other, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow Bauhaus Stage: Think in plan and elevation, set positions on a drawn floor grid
- Type
- Set in Bauhaus Stage's manner (Geometric sans only, sized by the ratio of circle to square), and let Constructivist Stage's lettering (Stencil the lettering straight onto the structure, fitted to each panel) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Bauhaus Stage's material (Spheres, cones and cylinders in primary color and metallic sheen); bring in exactly one thing from Constructivist Stage (Raw timber and steel with wheels and pulleys left exposed).
- Colour
- Build on #ededeb, #f0c419, #212022 and admit one accent from #c19a7c, #d15846, #170b09.
Where they fight
- Bauhaus Stage and Constructivist Stage both belong to Stage Design, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.
Caution
- Bauhaus Stage Gluing spheres and cones onto a costume without choreographing the body as a moving form leaves only a geometric fancy dress party.
- Constructivist Stage A static decorative tower called constructivist becomes a prop the actors cannot use, and the premise that the structure works disappears.
Image prompt
Produce four original images that take their structure from Bauhaus Stage (style, 1921–1929) and their accent from Constructivist Stage (style, 1922–1930s). ## What to make Make the kind of thing Bauhaus Stage exists for: stage costume and dance direction that recasts the body as pure geometry, or exhibition or brand film about the relation between figures and moving bodies. Choose one subject and hold it across all four. ## Structure comes from Bauhaus Stage - Geometrized bodies - Costumes of spheres and cones - Three acts by color - Choreography as spatial figure Composition: Think in plan and elevation, set positions on a drawn floor grid. Type and lettering: Geometric sans only, sized by the ratio of circle to square. ## Accent comes from Constructivist Stage, used sparingly - Bare structures - Turning wheels and ramps - No backdrop - Biomechanics of the actor's body Let one material quality come from it: Raw timber and steel with wheels and pulleys left exposed. ## Colour and feeling Build the ground on #ededeb, carry the structure in #f0c419 and #212022, and let a single accent come from #d15846. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette. Feeling to carry: play, futurity, technique, rebellion, exhilaration. ## Where they fight - Bauhaus Stage and Constructivist Stage both belong to Stage Design, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable. ## What goes wrong - Bauhaus Stage: Gluing spheres and cones onto a costume without choreographing the body as a moving form leaves only a geometric fancy dress party. - Constructivist Stage: A static decorative tower called constructivist becomes a prop the actors cannot use, and the premise that the structure works disappears. ## Across the four Keep the roles fixed in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows what this pairing can do rather than four versions of one picture. ## Constraints - Do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. - Do not reproduce the composition of an existing work. - Produce original compositions in the general period languages described above.
Related entries
- Bauhaus Stage 1921–1929 / Style / Stage Design
Schlemmer's stage workshop turned the body into geometry. Spheres and cones in the Triadic Ballet costumes set the human figure dancing as a form in space, and performance art traces its origin to them.
- Constructivist Stage 1922–1930s / Style / Stage Design
Revolutionary Russia's style that discarded painted backdrops for a bare working machine on stage. The turning structure Popova built for The Magnanimous Cuckold remade stage design as working construction.
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