# American Regionalism × Indigenismo — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=american-regionalism+indigenismo
# American Regionalism carries the structure. Indigenismo 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 American Regionalism (Style, 1930–1943) and its accent from Indigenismo (Style, 1920s–1950s). Structural cues: Compositions of rolling hills and farmland; Stylised, plain-spoken figures; Scenes with a clearly legible narrative; Colour keyed to the earth. Accent cues, used sparingly: Depiction of indigenous bodies and dress; The colour range of Andean earth and sky; Monumental mass in the figure; Quotation of pre-Columbian ornament. Composition: A single figure or task at mid-height, the ground curving behind it in bands, the horizon high and the sky small.. Type and lettering: A sturdy slab or heavy-stemmed grotesque, set in short declarative lines like a mural caption.. Let one material quality come from the second style: Ochre, oxide red and the hard blue of high altitude, on matte surfaces that hold earth tones without gloss.. Mood: Nostalgia, Trust, Intimacy, Rebellion. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 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.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - American Regionalism: Borrowing the rolling fields as nostalgic wallpaper strips away the labour that is the actual subject and leaves folksy pastiche, and figures simplified too far erase the specific land into generic countryside.
# - Indigenismo: Painting people as an ideal seen from outside takes their self representation away, and applying pre-Columbian pattern as decoration to an otherwise European image is the very appropriation the movement formed against.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/american-regionalism/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/indigenismo/design.md