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 Islamic Geometric Pattern: Derive the unit from the construction circle and size the field in whole units.
- Type
- Set in Islamic Geometric Pattern's manner (If lettering enters, give it its own band and leave the grid intact.), and let Pattern and Decoration's lettering (Type set inside the pattern at the same visual weight as the motif, so that nothing sits on top of the decoration.) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Islamic Geometric Pattern's material (Pierced stone, assembled wood, inlaid tile, crossings shown as level changes.); bring in exactly one thing from Pattern and Decoration (Fabric, print or tile whose repeat is honest, the join left visible, with unrelated patterns allowed to meet.).
- Colour
- Build on #e6d4a7, #3d7692, #6c4c38 and admit one accent from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615.
Where they fight
- Both belong to Ornament, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.
- Roughly 1967 years apart. Keep one of them recognisably period rather than letting both drift into the middle.
Caution
- Islamic Geometric Pattern Star shapes pasted together without the construction leave lines that miss at the crossings, and the error multiplies when repeated. The Islamic world is not one culture, so check region, dynasty, material and use.
- Pattern and Decoration Quoting the patterns without checking where they came from drops the respect for handwork at its core and leaves a jumble. Framing a modernist white centre with pattern reinstates the hierarchy it overturned.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Islamic Geometric Pattern (Technique, 8th century–) and its accent from Pattern and Decoration (Style, 1975–1985). Structural cues: Compass construction; Star forms; Repeating units; Interlacing lines. Accent cues, used sparingly: Repeating pattern covering the whole surface; Quotation of quilts and textiles; Reference to non-Western ornament; All-over composition without borders. Composition: Derive the unit from the construction circle and size the field in whole units.. Type and lettering: If lettering enters, give it its own band and leave the grid intact.. Let one material quality come from the second style: Fabric, print or tile whose repeat is honest, the join left visible, with unrelated patterns allowed to meet.. Mood: Calm, Luxury, Trust, Play, Rebellion. Color: build on #e6d4a7, #3d7692, #6c4c38 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
- Islamic Geometric Pattern 8th century– / Technique / Ornament
Divides, repeats and combines circles, squares, polygons and stars, building infinite extension and order on a finite plane.
- Pattern and Decoration 1975–1985 / Style / Ornament
A movement that argued head-on with modernism's premise that ornament is inferior. It brought the repetitions of Islamic geometry, quilts, wallpaper and textiles onto large canvases and placed women's handwork and non-Western idioms at the centre of art. The starting point for treating decoration as a political question.
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