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 Rayonism: Assume a light source outside the frame, cross sharp shafts, planes only where they meet
- Type
- Set in Rayonism's manner (Sharp, angular display type set on the diagonal, almost absorbed into the ray structure), and let Suprematism's lettering (Keep type small and neutral, apart from the forms' motion) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Rayonism's material (A few translucent colors layered over a dark or neutral ground, densest where they cross); bring in exactly one thing from Suprematism (White, black and red at the core; restrict the palette).
- Colour
- Build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 and admit one accent from #f1eee4, #cd2d24, #22211d.
Where they fight
These two are already listed as related, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Rayonism Drawing the object and adding rays on top leaves contours beneath the lines and the dissolution into light fails, and rays that never build planes at their crossings stay mere diagonal decoration.
- Suprematism Don't stop at scattering shapes. Feel the gravity and spacing continuing beyond the frame.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Rayonism (Style, 1912–1914) and its accent from Suprematism (Style, 1915–1920s). Structural cues: Sharp bundles of diagonal lines; Planes formed where lines intersect; Disappearance of the object's contour; Layering of a restricted palette. Accent cues, used sparingly: Floating rectangles; White space; Diagonal gravity; Restricted color. Composition: Assume a light source outside the frame, cross sharp shafts, planes only where they meet. Type and lettering: Sharp, angular display type set on the diagonal, almost absorbed into the ray structure. Let one material quality come from the second style: White, black and red at the core; restrict the palette. Mood: Technology, Exhilaration, Calm, Futurism. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #f1eee4, #cd2d24, #22211d. 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
- Rayonism 1912–1914 / Style / Avant-garde
A Russian abstraction that declared its subject to be not objects themselves but the crossing of light rays reflected from them. Sharp diagonal bundles of lines intersect, dissolving the object into an interference pattern of light. It marked the point where Russian abstraction broke away from Cubism.
- Suprematism 1915–1920s / Style / Geometric Abstraction
Leaves depiction behind, raising felt tension from a few geometric forms and empty space.
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