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 Celestial Atlas: Concentric spheres at the center, four corners filled with cartouches
- Type
- Set in Celestial Atlas's manner (Title inside an ornamented frame, star names tiny and italic), and let Weather Map's lettering (Values break into the isobar, set turned along the line) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Celestial Atlas's material (Gold and hand color on deep blue, stars struck as engraved points); bring in exactly one thing from Weather Map (The base map held pale, only lines and symbols brought forward).
- Colour
- Build on #e7ddcc, #b18651, #39485c and admit one accent from #eef2f1, #afcbdc, #4e5054.
Where they fight
- Celestial Atlas and Weather Map both belong to Diagrammatic Expression, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.
- Celestial Atlas and Weather Map stand roughly 201 years apart. Keep one of them recognisably period rather than letting both drift into the middle.
Caution
- Celestial Atlas Drawing the myth figures so large that the star positions vanish leaves a plate working neither as diagram nor as ornament.
- Weather Map Changing the isobar interval from day to day destroys the cue that lets a reader judge wind strength from how crowded the lines are.
Image prompt
Produce four original images that take their structure from Celestial Atlas (style, 17th–19th century) and their accent from Weather Map (style, 1851–). ## What to make Make the kind of thing Celestial Atlas exists for: double-page plates for books and exhibitions on astronomy or navigation, or showing a whole body of knowledge on one sheet with its ornament intact. Choose one subject and hold it across all four. ## Structure comes from Celestial Atlas - Myth figures over stars - Concentric celestial structure - Gold and blue coloring - Ornamented cartouches Composition: Concentric spheres at the center, four corners filled with cartouches. Type and lettering: Title inside an ornamented frame, star names tiny and italic. ## Accent comes from Weather Map, used sparingly - The density of isobars - Cold and warm front symbols - The weather-symbol system - Highs and lows labeled Let one material quality come from it: The base map held pale, only lines and symbols brought forward. ## Colour and feeling Build the ground on #e7ddcc, carry the structure in #b18651 and #39485c, and let a single accent come from #afcbdc. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette. Feeling to carry: exhilaration, luxury, calm, trust, technique. ## Where they fight - Celestial Atlas and Weather Map both belong to Diagrammatic Expression, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable. - Celestial Atlas and Weather Map stand roughly 201 years apart. Keep one of them recognisably period rather than letting both drift into the middle. ## What goes wrong - Celestial Atlas: Drawing the myth figures so large that the star positions vanish leaves a plate working neither as diagram nor as ornament. - Weather Map: Changing the isobar interval from day to day destroys the cue that lets a reader judge wind strength from how crowded the lines are. ## 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
- Celestial Atlas 17th–19th century / Style / Diagrammatic Expression
The Baroque celestial atlas layering constellation mythology over observation. Cellarius's Harmonia Macrocosmica marks the summit of an age when scientific diagram could also be decorative art.
- Weather Map 1851– / Style / Diagrammatic Expression
The atmosphere drawn on one sheet with isobars, front symbols and weather signs. Making invisible pressure fields visible through the density of curves became the public's scientific graphic, from newspapers to television.
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