# Art Brut × Lowbrow (Pop Surrealism) — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=art-brut+lowbrow
# Art Brut carries the structure. Lowbrow (Pop Surrealism) 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 Art Brut (Style, 1945–) and its accent from Lowbrow (Pop Surrealism) (Style, 1979–). Structural cues: A surface filled with no margin left; Private systems of letters and signs; Exhaustive reuse of the materials to hand; A self-sufficient world built by repetition. Accent cues, used sparingly: Pop-culture iconography; Precise classical technique; Uneasy humor; Street-born heraldry. Composition: Fill everything: no margin, no hierarchy, the field worked edge to edge at one density.. Type and lettering: A hand-drawn alphabet used consistently, its own rules kept even where they are inconvenient.. Let one material quality come from the second style: Oil gloss and smooth gradation, brushwork sanded away. Mood: Intimacy, Rebellion, Play, Nostalgia. 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
# - Art Brut: Faking the naivety with a wobbly font and some scribble: the force of this work comes from a real and internally consistent system, and imitation reproduces only its tics.
# - Lowbrow (Pop Surrealism): Picking creepy subject matter while skipping the rendering craft turns the work into doodling that only wants to shock.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/art-brut/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/lowbrow/design.md