# Expressionism × Neo-Expressionism — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=expressionism+neo-expressionism
# Expressionism carries the structure. Neo-Expressionism 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 Expressionism (Style, 1905–1930s) and its accent from Neo-Expressionism (Style, 1978–1990). Structural cues: Distorted form; Unnatural color; Rough brush and cut; Urban anxiety. Accent cues, used sparingly: Large formats and coarse brushwork; Subjects from myth and history; Heavy use of muddied colour and black; Mixed-in materials and physical thickness. Composition: Drop perspective, press figures against the edge, leave unstable gaps. Type and lettering: Cut the letters by hand and keep the tremor and unevenness. Let one material quality come from the second style: Muddied colour, black, and matter mixed into the paint—straw, sand, collage. Mood: Rebellion, Exhilaration, Intimacy, 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
# - Expressionism: Distortion applied evenly as an effect erases what the feeling is about, and the picture looks like realism with a filter over it.
# - Neo-Expressionism: Avoid controlled, tasteful roughness—the style demands real excess, and a tidied version reads as a costume of rebellion.

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