# AfriCOBRA × Casablanca Art School — composed image prompt
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# AfriCOBRA carries the structure and Casablanca Art School appears as the accent.
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images that take their structure from AfriCOBRA (style, 1968–) and their accent from Casablanca Art School (style, 1962–1970s).

## What to make

Make the kind of thing AfriCOBRA exists for: posters for Black community events and music where color and rhythm are the subject, or affirming words built into the image and printed to be carried and held up. Choose one subject and hold it across all four.

## Structure comes from AfriCOBRA

- Kool-Aid colors
- Rhythmic repetition
- Letters and figures
- Afrocentric imagery

Composition: Repeat one shape at even intervals so the eye keeps circling the surface. Type and lettering: Bend the words along the figures so the slogan becomes structure, not caption.

## Accent comes from Casablanca Art School, used sparingly

- Geometric and organic abstraction built from flat color and contour
- Repetition and symmetry learned from Amazigh rugs, jewelry and signs
- Strong red, orange, blue and green on earth color or white
- One language crossing painting, poster, magazine and outdoor mural

Let one material quality come from it: Use matte pigment, wood, leather, textile and print according to their medium, documenting craft source and maker.

## Colour and feeling

Build the ground on #f0c632, carry the structure in #d8452c and #315c79, and let a single accent come from #D94A2D. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette.
Feeling to carry: exhilaration, rebellion, intimacy.

## What goes wrong

- AfriCOBRA: Copying only the intensity of color while dropping the community's words and faces stylizes the look and loses the purpose, which was affirmation.
- Casablanca Art School: This was not Moroccan pattern pasted behind Western modern art. Treat education, public space, publishing and the revaluation of craft as part of its decolonial practice.

## 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.

Design specs for each entry: https://indexstyle.org/styles/africobra/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/casablanca-art-school/design.md