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 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 Latin American Modernism'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 Latin American Modernism (Rough plaster in one vivid color, with the hour's light calculated in).
- Colour
- Build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 and admit one accent from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615.
Where they fight
These two are already listed as related, 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.
- Latin American Modernism Painting walls in vivid color without designing openings and shadow makes the color glare evenly, giving loudness instead of the intended stillness.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Burle Marx Landscape (Style, 1930s–1994) and its accent from Latin American Modernism (Style, 1940s–1980s). Structural cues: Planting as color fields; Organic curves in plan; The tropical palette; Paving as graphic. Accent cues, used sparingly: Walls of vivid color; Staged light and water; Thick walls and stillness; Modernism rooted in place. 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. Let one material quality come from the second style: Rough plaster in one vivid color, with the hour's light calculated in. Mood: Exhilaration, Play, Futurism, Intimacy, 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
- 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.
- Latin American Modernism 1940s–1980s / Style / Modern Architecture
Latin American modern architecture rewrote the International Style in local color, light and feeling. Barragán's colored walls and water, and Niemeyer's curves, proved that modern building too could carry the emotion of a place.
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