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 Funk Art: One lumpen object shot frontally, filling the frame, with nothing composed around it
- Type
- Set in Funk Art's manner (Hand-pushed uneven lettering, left slumped and never cleanly typeset), and let Lowbrow (Pop Surrealism)'s lettering (Sign-painter and comic lettering rendered as carefully as the art) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Funk Art's material (Bright running glazes over bare clay, with drips, thumbprints and firing accidents kept); bring in exactly one thing from Lowbrow (Pop Surrealism) (Oil gloss and smooth gradation, brushwork sanded away).
- 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
- Funk Art Aiming only at vulgarity and making it rough removes the base, which is the knowing misuse of craft materials, and the result reads as merely careless.
- Lowbrow (Pop Surrealism) Picking creepy subject matter while skipping the rendering craft turns the work into doodling that only wants to shock.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Funk Art (Style, 1960s–1970s) and its accent from Lowbrow (Pop Surrealism) (Style, 1979–). Structural cues: Garish glaze colours; Bodily, off-colour motifs; Craft materials deliberately misused; Finishes that keep their handmade roughness. Accent cues, used sparingly: Pop-culture iconography; Precise classical technique; Uneasy humor; Street-born heraldry. Composition: One lumpen object shot frontally, filling the frame, with nothing composed around it. Type and lettering: Hand-pushed uneven lettering, left slumped and never cleanly typeset. Let one material quality come from the second style: Oil gloss and smooth gradation, brushwork sanded away. Mood: Play, Rebellion, Exhilaration, Nostalgia. 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
- Funk Art 1960s–1970s / Style / Postwar American Art
A movement in ceramics and sculpture around the San Francisco Bay Area that deliberately soiled good taste and the authority of abstraction alike. Garish colour, bodily humour and the wilful misuse of craft materials laugh at the hierarchy of art itself. An early precedent for treating coarseness as a strategy.
- Lowbrow (Pop Surrealism) 1979– / Style / Illustration Styles
Painting from outside the museum, schooled on hot rods, comics, tattoos and B movies. It renders pop memory in exacting oil technique, and Juxtapoz magazine gave it a home under the name Pop Surrealism.
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