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 Neoclassicism: Let the horizontal work hard and place elements symmetrically.
- Type
- Set in Neoclassicism's manner (Inscriptional capitals, letterspaced wide.), and let Renaissance's lettering (Set Roman capitals in the proportions of inscriptions.) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Neoclassicism's material (The white of stone and plaster, with gold kept to key points.); bring in exactly one thing from Renaissance (Move from tempera to oil and build up transparent layers.).
- Colour
- Build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 and admit one accent from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615.
Where they fight
- Both belong to Historical Styles, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.
- Roughly 1746 years apart. Keep one of them recognisably period rather than letting both drift into the middle.
Caution
- Neoclassicism Do not mistake simplicity for dullness. Hard contour and tense composition are both required at once.
- Renaissance Pasting on columns and symmetry gives you stage scenery. Decide one basis for the proportions and carry it through the whole.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Neoclassicism (Style, 1760s–1830s) and its accent from Renaissance (Style, 14th–16th century). Structural cues: Hard, clear contour lines; A restrained number of colors; Ancient subjects and dress; Shallow, stage like space. Accent cues, used sparingly: One point linear perspective; The classical orders and symmetry; Composition based on the proportions of the body; A clear triangular composition. Composition: Let the horizontal work hard and place elements symmetrically.. Type and lettering: Inscriptional capitals, letterspaced wide.. Let one material quality come from the second style: Move from tempera to oil and build up transparent layers.. Mood: Trust, Luxury, Calm. 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
- Neoclassicism 1760s–1830s / Style / Historical Styles
A movement that turned back to ancient simplicity, prompted by the excavations at Pompeii and reacting against the decorative excess of Rococo. Contours are hard, color is held down, and the subjects preach civic virtue. States of the revolutionary period chose this style as their own face.
- Renaissance 14th–16th century / Style / Historical Styles
A movement that rediscovered ancient proportion and the human body and fixed three dimensions on a flat surface through linear perspective. Mathematics became the common language of painting and architecture, and the norms of the next five hundred years, symmetry, the classical orders and the golden ratio, were established here.
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