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 Italian Futurism: Fix one point of impact; radiate and accelerate the words
- Type
- Set in Italian Futurism's manner (Treat differing weights, widths and angles as volume), and let Rayonism's lettering (Sharp, angular display type set on the diagonal, almost absorbed into the ray structure) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Italian Futurism's material (Black and off-white with one warning color); bring in exactly one thing from Rayonism (A few translucent colors layered over a dark or neutral ground, densest where they cross).
- Colour
- Build on #eee4ce, #20201e, #d44531 and admit one accent from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615.
Where they fight
- Both belong to Avant-garde, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.
Caution
- Italian Futurism Never split the movement's innovation from its embrace of war and Fascism; handle it critically.
- Rayonism Drawing the object and adding rays on top leaves contours beneath the lines and the dissolution into light fails, and rays that never build planes at their crossings stay mere diagonal decoration.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Italian Futurism (Style, 1909–1940s) and its accent from Rayonism (Style, 1912–1914). Structural cues: Words-in-freedom; Radiating type; Onomatopoeia; Extreme jumps in scale. Accent cues, used sparingly: Sharp bundles of diagonal lines; Planes formed where lines intersect; Disappearance of the object's contour; Layering of a restricted palette. Composition: Fix one point of impact; radiate and accelerate the words. Type and lettering: Treat differing weights, widths and angles as volume. Let one material quality come from the second style: A few translucent colors layered over a dark or neutral ground, densest where they cross. Mood: Exhilaration, Futurism, Rebellion, Technology, Calm. Color: build on #eee4ce, #20201e, #d44531 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
- Italian Futurism 1909–1940s / Style / Avant-garde
Converts speed, noise and shock into the size and trajectory of letters, setting the quiet page in motion.
- Rayonism 1912–1914 / Style / Avant-garde
A Russian abstraction that declared its subject to be not objects themselves but the crossing of light rays reflected from them. Sharp diagonal bundles of lines intersect, dissolving the object into an interference pattern of light. It marked the point where Russian abstraction broke away from Cubism.
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