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 Burle Marx Landscape: Curves divide the plane, straight lines kept to paving edges
- Type
- Set in Burle Marx Landscape's manner (One species per large block, planes told apart by leaf and color), and let Emotional Architecture's lettering (Sink signage into the wall color and let shadow make it readable) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Burle Marx Landscape's material (The figure drawn in stone paving, water used as empty space); bring in exactly one thing from Emotional Architecture (Rough plaster in one vivid color, with the hour's light calculated in).
- Colour
- Build on #eeedf3, #69885f, #30392c and admit one accent from #d9ccb3, #f46bb9, #476fb5.
Where they fight
These are already listed as related entries, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Burle Marx Landscape Drawing the curves as decoration while ignoring growth rates lets the blocks break down within years and the color edges go muddy.
- Emotional Architecture Painting walls in vivid color without designing openings and shadow makes the color glare evenly, giving loudness instead of the intended stillness.
Image prompt
Produce four original images that take their structure from Burle Marx Landscape (style, 1930s–1994) and their accent from Emotional Architecture (style, 1953-). ## What to make Make the kind of thing Burle Marx Landscape exists for: designing a plaza or roof plane as one picture read from above, or making leaf form and color contrast the subject with tropical species. Choose one subject and hold it across all four. ## Structure comes from Burle Marx Landscape - Planting as color fields - Organic curves in plan - The tropical palette - Paving as graphic Composition: Curves divide the plane, straight lines kept to paving edges. Type and lettering: One species per large block, planes told apart by leaf and color. ## Accent comes from Emotional Architecture, used sparingly - A single large wall left without windows - Surfaces painted through in one flat color - Planes of shadow cast by direct sun - Mass read as sculpture rather than as building Let one material quality come from it: Rough plaster in one vivid color, with the hour's light calculated in. ## Colour and feeling Build the ground on #eeedf3, carry the structure in #69885f and #30392c, and let a single accent come from #f46bb9. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette. Feeling to carry: exhilaration, play, futurity, intimacy, calm. ## What goes wrong - Burle Marx Landscape: Drawing the curves as decoration while ignoring growth rates lets the blocks break down within years and the color edges go muddy. - Emotional Architecture: Painting walls in vivid color without designing openings and shadow makes the color glare evenly, giving loudness instead of the intended stillness. ## 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
- Burle Marx Landscape 1930s–1994 / Style / Garden Styles
The inventor of modernist landscape, massing Brazilian tropical plants in color fields like abstract painting. As the Copacabana wave pavement shows, he designed the ground as one graphic.
- Emotional Architecture 1953- / Style / Modern Architecture
Building that raises unbroken walls as sculptural mass and works on feeling through color, direct sun and stillness alone. Goeritz gave it the name in the 1953 manifesto he wrote for El Eco, against the functionalism of his day.
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