# Cubism × Purism — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=cubism+purism
# Cubism carries the structure. Purism 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 Cubism (Style, 1907–1925) and its accent from Purism (Style, 1918–1925). Structural cues: Multiple viewpoints presented at once; Subjects broken down into facets; Muted earth tones and grey gradations; Collage of newsprint and lettering. Accent cues, used sparingly: Silhouettes of standardised everyday objects; Compositions built on horizontals and verticals; A restrained number of colours; Contour lines of overlapping forms. Composition: Break the subject into planes and set fragments from different viewpoints on one surface. Type and lettering: Echo the Synthetic phase, cutting compact grotesques and stencil capitals as pasted paper. Let one material quality come from the second style: Greys and ochres with a little blue, surfaces painted evenly and matte. Mood: Rebellion, Technology, Trust, Futurism. 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
# - Cubism: Avoid fragmenting for decoration alone—if the planes no longer describe the subject from real viewpoints, the result reads as random shattering, not Cubism.
# - Purism: Bringing anecdote or ornament back turns the objects from standardized types into picturesque still lifes, and the clarity of the machine age is lost.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/cubism/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/purism/design.md