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-Modernism: Show the grid, then deviate from part of it
- Type
- Set in Post-Modernism's manner (Mix two or three faces from different eras), and let Postmodern Architecture's lettering (Set headings in serif capitals and treat them as ornament with their frames) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Post-Modernism's material (Quoted images, patterns, vivid color; meaningful collisions); bring in exactly one thing from Postmodern Architecture (Tinted stucco, colored stone, metal trim switching color plane by plane).
- Colour
- Build on #f2dbb6, #ee5b78, #2f61a7 and admit one accent from #e7d7c8, #b45d77, #526489.
Where they fight
These are already listed as related entries, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Post-Modernism Random is not plural. Mix only what you can justify aloud.
- Postmodern Architecture Pasting on pediments and pilasters without knowing what they quote loses the irony and leaves a dated theme park facade, so read what in modernism is criticized and who the building addresses.
Image prompt
Produce four original images that take their structure from Post-Modernism (style, 1970s–1990s) and their accent from Postmodern Architecture (style, 1960s–1990s). ## What to make Make the kind of thing Post-Modernism exists for: planting intelligent humor, or escaping homogeneous category codes. Choose one subject and hold it across all four. ## Structure comes from Post-Modernism - Mixed styles - Irony - Ornament reclaimed - Unexpected color Composition: Show the grid, then deviate from part of it. Type and lettering: Mix two or three faces from different eras. ## Accent comes from Postmodern Architecture, used sparingly - Historical quotation - Ornament returned - Strong color - Double meanings Let one material quality come from it: Tinted stucco, colored stone, metal trim switching color plane by plane. ## Colour and feeling Build the ground on #f2dbb6, carry the structure in #ee5b78 and #2f61a7, and let a single accent come from #b45d77. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette. Feeling to carry: play, rebellion, exhilaration. ## What goes wrong - Post-Modernism: Random is not plural. Mix only what you can justify aloud. - Postmodern Architecture: Pasting on pediments and pilasters without knowing what they quote loses the irony and leaves a dated theme park facade, so read what in modernism is criticized and who the building addresses. ## 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-Modernism 1970s–1990s / Style / Avant-garde
Doubts the single right answer and mixes quotation, irony and ornament as play. The answers per field stand as their own entries, with Memphis in furniture, Postmodern Architecture in building, and New Wave on the page.
- Postmodern Architecture 1960s–1990s / Style / Modern Architecture
Rebels against modernism's universality, reintroducing historical quotation, ornament, sign, color and irony to city and building.
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