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 Lubok: Drop perspective, range the figures across, fill the rest with words
- Type
- Set in Lubok's manner (Hand-written text poured around the picture and framed as one unit), and let Minhwa's lettering (Turn strokes into pictures as the ideograph paintings do, blurring letter and image) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Lubok's material (Thick woodcut outlines with red, yellow and green washed past the line); bring in exactly one thing from Minhwa (Strong reds and blues on hanji, contours drawn with a modulated brush).
- 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
- Lubok Tidying the outline and keeping the color inside it removes the misregistration and rough hand that carried the warmth of a popular print.
- Minhwa Correcting the broken perspective as though it were unskilled drawing removes the humor multiple viewpoints produce, leaving a stiff piece of realism.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Lubok (Style, 17th–19th century) and its accent from Minhwa (Style, 17th–19th century). Structural cues: Thick outlines; Flat hand-coloring; Image and text together; Satire and story. Accent cues, used sparingly: The tiger-and-magpie formula; Free multiple perspective; Humorous exaggeration; Auspicious motifs. Composition: Drop perspective, range the figures across, fill the rest with words. Type and lettering: Hand-written text poured around the picture and framed as one unit. Let one material quality come from the second style: Strong reds and blues on hanji, contours drawn with a modulated brush. Mood: Play, Intimacy, 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
- Lubok 17th–19th century / Style / Popular Prints
Russia's popular print: thick outlines, flat hand-coloring, image and text sharing the sheet, circulating sacred stories and satire cheaply. The avant-garde rediscovered it in the 20th century as Russia's native form.
- Minhwa 17th–19th century / Style / Popular Painting
Unnamed painters of late Joseon Korea made pictures for ordinary people. Tigers and magpies, pictorial ideographs and scholar's-shelf still lifes follow set formulas, but composition unbound by perspective and a streak of humor made them a popular visual language that laughs at authority.
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