# Figuration Libre × Graffiti Pop — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=figuration-libre+graffiti-pop
# Figuration Libre carries the structure and Graffiti Pop 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 Figuration Libre (style, 1980s) and their accent from Graffiti Pop (style, early 1980s–mid-1990s).

## What to make

Make the kind of thing Figuration Libre exists for: releasing story and text into a bright large field for music or comics, or prioritizing hand-painted speed and crowded figures over polished Pop Art. Choose one subject and hold it across all four.

## Structure comes from Figuration Libre

- Comic figures with heavy black contour
- Flat saturated red, yellow, blue, and green
- Words, signs, and panel-like divisions inside the image
- Fast large marks associated with murals and posters

Composition: Surround a central figure with small figures, words, and signs until forms fill the gaps. Type and lettering: Make heavy hand lettering part of the image and separate explanatory body copy.

## Accent comes from Graffiti Pop, used sparingly

- Bright spray lines, splatter, and heavy outlines behind products
- Brick, chain-link, lamps, sidewalks, and bins compressed into a shallow stage
- High-contrast black, white, red, yellow, and turquoise
- Hand-drawn headlines above orderly product names and prices

Let one material quality come from it: Use flat spot color, rough airbrush, print halftone, and painted plywood without reproducing a real tag or signature.

## Colour and feeling

Build the ground on #F2C42D, carry the structure in #E63C2F and #2F78B7, and let a single accent come from #E5553F. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette.
Feeling to carry: play, rebellion, exhilaration.

## What goes wrong

- Figuration Libre: Do not reduce it to colorful graffiti. State the 1980s French artists, popular-media circulation, and return to the figure.
- Graffiti Pop: Do not imitate a living or historical graffiti writer’s tag, lettering, or mural. Do not reduce poverty and decay to cool urban props; explain the commercializing context.

## 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/figuration-libre/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/graffiti-pop/design.md