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 Light and Space: Erase corners and edges so no break between surfaces can be found
- Type
- Set in Light and Space's manner (Finish all wording outside the room and leave no text or marker inside), and let Minimalism's lettering (A light sans-serif or a well-cut serif) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Light and Space's material (Scrims, resin and built up coatings, with the source itself hidden); bring in exactly one thing from Minimalism (Nearly achromatic; texture in exactly one place).
- Colour
- Build on #d5cabe, #7fb4f7, #232125 and admit one accent from #efede5, #b7b0a2, #20201d.
Where they fight
These are already listed as related entries, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Light and Space Turning the light up to make it noticeable destroys an effect that depends on perceptual thresholds, leaving nothing but a glowing interior.
- Minimalism Missing information is not minimal. Decide priorities before you cut.
Image prompt
Produce four original images that take their structure from Light and Space (style, 1960s–) and their accent from Minimalism (style, 1960s–). ## What to make Make the kind of thing Light and Space exists for: designing a room itself as the experience, with no object placed in it, or making light that changes over time the central attraction of a building. Choose one subject and hold it across all four. ## Structure comes from Light and Space - Objects erased - Rooms filled with light - Thresholds of perception - Apertures to the sky Composition: Erase corners and edges so no break between surfaces can be found. Type and lettering: Finish all wording outside the room and leave no text or marker inside. ## Accent comes from Minimalism, used sparingly - Vast white space - Few elements - Quiet color - Precise spacing Let one material quality come from it: Nearly achromatic; texture in exactly one place. ## Colour and feeling Build the ground on #d5cabe, carry the structure in #7fb4f7 and #232125, and let a single accent come from #b7b0a2. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette. Feeling to carry: calm, futurity, exhilaration, trust. ## What goes wrong - Light and Space: Turning the light up to make it noticeable destroys an effect that depends on perceptual thresholds, leaving nothing but a glowing interior. - Minimalism: Missing information is not minimal. Decide priorities before you cut. ## 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
- Light and Space 1960s– / Style / Geometric Abstraction
The Southern California movement that takes light itself, spatial perception and the limits of vision as material. Turrell's openings to the sky and Irwin's scrims make the act of seeing the artwork.
- Minimalism 1960s– / Style / Functionalism
Removes elements to maximize the meaning and tension of what remains.
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