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 Neo-Dada: No grid: a horizontal collage in which one three-dimensional object breaks the picture plane and pulls the eye off axis.
- Type
- Set in Neo-Dada's manner (Mixed sizes and mixed faces from whatever was to hand, some stencilled, some torn out of existing print.), and let Pop Art's lettering (Comic-style extra-bold lettering) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Neo-Dada's material (Silkscreened newsprint over smeared paint, registration deliberately out, erasures left visible.); bring in exactly one thing from Pop Art (Red, yellow, blue, black outlines, halftones).
- Colour
- Build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 and admit one accent from #f5dd27, #ee2f2f, #2060b7.
Where they fight
These two are already listed as related, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Neo-Dada Pasting readymades alone never shows why they were chosen, and it becomes a shelf of knickknacks. Arranging it tidily strips the dirt and scale the work depends on, and leaves clean decoration.
- Pop Art Overusing comic marks trivializes the content. Decide what you treat as mass culture.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Neo-Dada (Style, 1953–1965) and its accent from Pop Art (Style, 1950s–1960s). Structural cues: Ready-made objects brought onto the picture; Printed matter transferred by silkscreen; Forms halfway between painting and object; Traces of erasing, layering and soiling. Accent cues, used sparingly: Halftone dots; Bold outlines; Primary colors; Repetition. Composition: No grid: a horizontal collage in which one three-dimensional object breaks the picture plane and pulls the eye off axis.. Type and lettering: Mixed sizes and mixed faces from whatever was to hand, some stencilled, some torn out of existing print.. Let one material quality come from the second style: Red, yellow, blue, black outlines, halftones. Mood: Rebellion, Play, Technology, Exhilaration. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #f5dd27, #ee2f2f, #2060b7. 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
- Neo-Dada 1953–1965 / Style / Postwar American Art
A postwar current that answered the inwardness of Abstract Expressionism by bringing household objects, printed matter and taxidermy onto the picture, working in the gap between art and life. It inherited Dada's gestures while making the materials of consumer society into structural components. The branching point immediately before Pop art.
- Pop Art 1950s–1960s / Style / Pop
Amplifies the vocabulary of ads and comics until mass culture itself becomes the picture.
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