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 Post-Internet Art: Place browser images, objects and documentation together without declaring one the original
- Type
- Set in Post-Internet Art's manner (Let interface text, product names, filenames and gallery labels coexist as distinct registers), and let Superflat's lettering (Letters share the drawing outline and sit flat without shadow) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Post-Internet Art's material (Keep the traces of conversion between screenshot, compression, print, 3D output and commodity); bring in exactly one thing from Superflat (Even fills, vivid color including fluorescents, a glossy finish).
- Colour
- Build on #F7F7F7, #7A5CFF, #202020 and admit one accent from #f7d52c, #ec4f8d, #43a9df.
Where they fight
These are already listed as related entries, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Post-Internet Art A collage of found web images alone does not address the circulation, reproduction and exhibition that define the tendency.
- Superflat Lining up cute symbols drops the argument that set high art against consumer culture, and all that remains is product illustration.
Image prompt
Produce four original images that take their structure from Post-Internet Art (aesthetic, 2000s–) and their accent from Superflat (style, 2000s–). ## What to make Make the kind of thing Post-Internet Art exists for: treating social, commerce, 3D and galleries as one circulation system, or tracing digital images into objects and back online. Choose one subject and hold it across all four. ## Structure comes from Post-Internet Art - Network images converted into prints or objects - Screenshots, product images and 3D renders mixed - Installation views returning to social feeds - High-resolution and compressed imagery on the same surface Composition: Place browser images, objects and documentation together without declaring one the original. Type and lettering: Let interface text, product names, filenames and gallery labels coexist as distinct registers. ## Accent comes from Superflat, used sparingly - Extreme flatness - Vivid color - Repeated characters - Commercial culture Let one material quality come from it: Even fills, vivid color including fluorescents, a glossy finish. ## Colour and feeling Build the ground on #F7F7F7, carry the structure in #7A5CFF and #202020, and let a single accent come from #43a9df. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette. Feeling to carry: rebellion, technique, futurity, play, exhilaration. ## What goes wrong - Post-Internet Art: A collage of found web images alone does not address the circulation, reproduction and exhibition that define the tendency. - Superflat: Lining up cute symbols drops the argument that set high art against consumer culture, and all that remains is product illustration. ## 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
- Post-Internet Art 2000s– / Aesthetic / Digital Culture
Post-Internet art treats the internet as an ordinary condition of life and production, turning the circulation between online images, objects, exhibitions and documentation into the work.
- Superflat 2000s– / Style / Japanese Postwar Avant-garde
Juxtaposes anime, manga, advertising and traditional painting on one flat plane, questioning the border of high art and consumer culture.
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