Stylogeny combining Belle Époque Lithographic Poster × Spanish Bullfight Poster

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Belle Époque Lithographic Poster × Spanish Bullfight Poster

Both are colour lithographs for the street, but the Belle Époque artist drew one animated figure and the lettering together on the stone, while the cartel sets a conservative painted scene above a typeset bill it usually keeps apart; borrow the integrated lettering when the programme is short.

From the research on Spanish Bullfight Poster (Cartel Taurino)

Mix them and make something Belle Époque Lithographic Poster Spanish Bullfight Poster

BLOOMBelle Époque × Spanish Bullfight1866 · 1879
A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from Spanish Bullfight Poster, their arrangement from Belle Époque Lithographic Poster, the finish from Spanish Bullfight Poster. Not a real work, and not an image of either style.

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What each style brings

Each part of the design comes from the style with the stronger say in it, and each style gives at least two.

Belle Époque Lithographic Poster Spanish Bullfight Poster (Cartel Taurino)

Type from Spanish Bullfight Poster
Colour from Belle Époque Lithographic Poster
Form from Spanish Bullfight Poster
Composition from Belle Époque Lithographic Poster
Surface from Spanish Bullfight Poster

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The type

Open fonts standing in for each style’s own type, which is often hand-drawn or commercial.

Display · Spanish Bullfight Poster

Bloom

Anton, standing in for Mecana (even-stroke slab serif) and heavy condensed grotesque capitals for the matadors' names, printed in black, red or blue

Text · Belle Époque Lithographic Poster

The large colour lithographic street poster that turned Paris into an open-air gallery, from Jules Chéret's first posters of 1866 to Leonetto Cappiello before the First World War. One dominant, animated figure, flat or vaporous colour printed from a few stones, and lettering drawn by the artist directly on the stone sell cabarets, spectacles, drinks and bicycles at a glance.

Bodoni Moda; Belle Époque Lithographic Poster used Artist's lettering drawn directly on the lithographic stone and Chéret's bouncing, irregular display capitals

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The colours

The ground and leading colours come from Belle Époque Lithographic Poster, with a counter-accent from Spanish Bullfight Poster. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Belle Époque Lithographic Poster Spanish Bullfight Poster (Cartel Taurino)

  • #1b1a1a ground · 36%
  • #f3e7c9 ink · 14%
  • #f0b62b accent · 18%
  • #d7322a accent · 14%
  • #2b4f8c accent · 10%
  • #7d8a3a accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #1b1a1a;
  --ink: #f3e7c9;
  --accent-1: #f0b62b;
  --accent-2: #d7322a;
  --accent-3: #2b4f8c;
  --accent-4: #7d8a3a;
  --font-display: "Anton", sans-serif;
  --font-text: "Bodoni Moda", serif;
}

Use it with care

Spanish Bullfight Poster (Cartel Taurino): Bullfighting is a living but contested practice, opposed by animal-welfare campaigners in Spain and abroad, so borrowing its imagery for unrelated products brings that dispute with it; the painted manolas also belong to a folkloric picture of Andalusia rather than a record of it. Ruano Llopis (d. 1950), Roberto Domingo (d. 1956) and Juan Reus (d. 2003) are still in copyright in Spain, so paint new pictures in the manner rather than reprinting their motifs.

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The two styles

A dark-haired woman with red flowers in her hair dances in a flowing red dress, raising a tambourine against a golden sunburst beneath the large red word “SOLARA.” Trees frame a distant domed city skyline and an illuminated arched bridge over blue water. 1866–1914 · Western Europe Belle Époque Lithographic Poster The large colour lithographic street poster that turned Paris into an open-air gallery, from Jules Chéret's first posters of 1866 to Leonetto Cappiello before the First World War. One dominant, animated figure, flat or vaporous colour printed from a few stones, and lettering drawn by the artist directly on the stone sell cabarets, spectacles, drinks and bicycles at a glance. An ornate Spanish bullfighting poster shows a matador sweeping a red cape beside a charging black bull in a crowded arena, with historic buildings and mountains behind them. Large red and blue lettering, floral borders, and a smaller scene of mounted riders herding bulls surround the central painting. 1879–present · Southern Europe Spanish Bullfight Poster (Cartel Taurino) The Spanish bullfight poster in its illustrated form, from Marcelino de Unceta's lithographs (from 1879) to the Valencian house of Ortega, which supplied rings across Spain. From the 1910s the tall sheet, at its largest over two metres, usually splits in two: a brushy, naturalistic painting of a matador's pass, a picador or manolas in Manila shawls above, often under the ring's name, and below it a centred programme of date, bull breeders and matadors in mixed faces between rules, the names in heavy capitals. The picture was often a stock print, its text added afterwards by another printer.

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