# Creacionismo (クレアシオニスモ)

> A movement begun in Chile and carried through Paris, which declared that poetry does not copy nature but creates new facts. It produced visual poems in quantity, arranging letters as shapes and making the border between language and page a subject of experiment. With Ultraismo, one of the two pillars of the Spanish-language avant-garde.

- IndexStyle No.497 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/creacionismo
- Kind: Layout · Family: Experimental Typography · Era: 1916–1930s
- Mood: Futurism, Technology, Calm
- Color cues: #e9e6dd / #67635d / #171615 (cues taken from reference works, not a fixed palette)

## Defining characteristics

- Letters arranged as shapes
- Lines of verse recomposed visually
- Type without ornament
- The white ground used as a component

## Best used for

- Posters and titles where the words physically form the image, with no illustration and no photograph
- Book and exhibition typography for texts that must be read as constructed objects rather than transcribed speech

## Research method

This entry records a historical style; derive the treatment from its sources rather than a fixed recipe:

- One plain face at several sizes, with the change of scale as the only expressive device.
- Words positioned as objects in a field, the white ground measured as carefully as the type, alignment abandoned wherever the sense requires it.
- Black on white and nothing else: no rule, no colour, no image to fall back on.

## What to avoid

Scattering words for the look of it: here the position of every word is an assertion, and arbitrary placement leaves only a shape.

## Application checklist

Before calling a piece an application of this style, check it against the defining characteristics:

- [ ] Letters arranged as shapes
- [ ] Lines of verse recomposed visually
- [ ] Type without ornament
- [ ] The white ground used as a component
- [ ] At least one reference work below has been studied directly
- [ ] The caution above ("What to avoid") has been addressed

## Related styles

- **Ultraísmo (ウルトライスモ)** — A Spanish-language avant-garde that called for poetry compressed into metaphor and stripped of ornament. On the magazine page its type ran diagonally, woodcut abstractions were let in among the lines, and the poem was set as a plate in its own right. The earliest experimental typography to travel back and forth between Iberia and South America. → https://indexstyle.org/styles/ultraismo
- **Concrete Poetry (具体詩／コンクリート・ポエトリー)** — Composes not just the meaning of words but their placement, repetition, blank space and sound as the poem itself. → https://indexstyle.org/styles/concrete-poetry

## Further study

- Vicente Huidobro's theory
- Comparison with the calligramme
- The typesetting of Altazor

## Reference works

- Vicente Huidobro『Altazor』の紙面 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Altazor%20-%20Poema.JPG

## Source of record

- Wikipedia — Creacionismo — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creacionismo

## Machine surfaces

- JSON: https://indexstyle.org/api/styles/creacionismo
- Image-generation prompt (legally clean): https://indexstyle.org/styles/creacionismo/prompt.txt
- MCP: https://indexstyle.org/mcp (tools: search_styles, get_style, compose_styles; prompts: image-prompt, apply-style)

## 日本語

詩は自然を写すのではなく新しい事実を創るのだと宣言した、チリ発でパリを経た運動。文字を図形として配置する視覚詩を大量に生み、言葉と画面の境界を実験の対象にした。ウルトライスモと並ぶスペイン語圏前衛の柱。

特徴: 文字を図形として配置する／詩行の視覚的な組み替え／飾りのない活字／白地を構成要素として使う
注意: 表面的な記号へ還元せず、時代・地域・技術・制作主体の文脈を確認する。