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 Impressionism: Move off center and let the edge of the frame cut the subject.
- Type
- Set in Impressionism's manner (Keep the lightness of the hand and do not tighten the page with a rigid face.), and let Post-Impressionism's lettering (Change the typeface with each manner and do not aim for uniformity.) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Impressionism's material (Set unmixed colors side by side and leave white ground to make the light.); bring in exactly one thing from Post-Impressionism (Thick paint, with the borders between fields of color left visible.).
- Colour
- Build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 and admit one accent from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615.
Where they fight
- Both belong to Painting Techniques, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.
Caution
- Impressionism Imitating the brushwork alone produces nothing but blur. The real decision is which color goes into the shadow.
- Post-Impressionism Do not treat it as a single style. Name each time whose solution you mean.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Impressionism (Style, 1860s–1880s) and its accent from Post-Impressionism (Style, 1880s–1900s). Structural cues: Short, divided touches of paint; Shadows made without black; Natural light outdoors; Composition that catches an instant. Accent cues, used sparingly: A constructed order of brushstrokes; Flat, forceful fields of color; Undulating line that carries emotion; Inquiry into form ahead of subject. Composition: Move off center and let the edge of the frame cut the subject.. Type and lettering: Keep the lightness of the hand and do not tighten the page with a rigid face.. Let one material quality come from the second style: Thick paint, with the borders between fields of color left visible.. Mood: Exhilaration, Calm, Intimacy, Technology. 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
- Impressionism 1860s–1880s / Style / Painting Techniques
A movement that went outdoors and caught light itself with rapid strokes. It abandoned the contour line, laid shadows in complementary colors rather than black, and painted the same subject differently at each hour of the day. Nearly every avant-garde that followed defined itself by agreeing or disagreeing with it.
- Post-Impressionism 1880s–1900s / Style / Painting Techniques
A collective name for painters who found the improvisation of Impressionism insufficient and recovered structure, symbol and emotion, each in their own way. It is not one style but several answers standing side by side, among them pointillism, flat fields of color and surging brushwork. Twentieth century abstraction branched off from here.
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