# Abstract Expressionism × Tachisme — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=abstract-expressionism+tachisme
# Abstract Expressionism carries the structure. Tachisme appear as accents, each further back than the last.
# Style descriptors only. Never imitates a specific artist, studio, brand or work.

An original image that takes its structure from Abstract Expressionism (Style, 1940s–1950s) and its accent from Tachisme (Style, 1945–1960). Structural cues: Vast canvases; Bodily brushwork; All-over composition; Drips and stains. Accent cues, used sparingly: Accumulations of stains and drips; Marks of rapid gesture; Arrangements without a centre; Contrast with reserves of white ground. Composition: Refuse a center and carry stroke density to every edge. Type and lettering: Keep words to a few and place them clear of the paint. Let one material quality come from the second style: Fluid ink and thinned paint that stains, drips and splashes on a white ground. Mood: Exhilaration, Rebellion, Calm, Play. Color: build on #ddd4c5, #8d5541, #252221 with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. 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.

# Where the two fight
# - Abstract Expressionism and Tachisme share no intent, so the contrast has to become the subject rather than something to smooth over.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - Abstract Expressionism: Scattering energetic strokes as decoration skips each artist's method, the postwar politics and the tie between scale and body, and with neither density nor a record of decisions it reads as a dirty backdrop.
# - Tachisme: Avoid retouching or composing the splash after the fact—corrected gestures lose the recorded speed that is the style's entire content.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/abstract-expressionism/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/tachisme/design.md