# Jangarh Kalam × Madhubani — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=jangarh-kalam+madhubani
# Jangarh Kalam carries the structure and Madhubani 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 Jangarh Kalam (style, 1980s–) and their accent from Madhubani (style, traditional–present).

## What to make

Make the kind of thing Jangarh Kalam exists for: showing individual authorship alongside community narratives in contemporary Indian art, or collaborating with Pardhan artists on publications or exhibitions that connect contours and internal rhythm. Choose one subject and hold it across all four.

## Structure comes from Jangarh Kalam

- Large organic contours subdivided by repeated marks
- Dots, short lines and curves flowing along bodies and branches
- Mythic narratives connected with familiar living forms
- Movement within both coloured paintings and pen drawings

Composition: Study a large contour and vary the direction and density of marks within its regions. Type and lettering: Name the artist and work and keep repeated marks away from reading text.

## Accent comes from Madhubani, used sparingly

- Pattern filling the plane
- Double outlines
- Mythic imagery
- Natural pigments

Let one material quality come from it: Double outlines separating figure from ground, a limited natural palette.

## Colour and feeling

Build the ground on #F1E6CC, carry the structure in #A45A38 and #27261E, and let a single accent come from #ae3e50. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette.
Feeling to carry: intimacy, play, exhilaration, nostalgia.

## What goes wrong

- Jangarh Kalam: Do not generalise one visual language to all Gond people. Distinguish historic mural traditions from Jangarh Kalam, and do not make reproductions of specific works or sacred figures into a generic recipe.
- Madhubani: Tiling the pattern as pure material strips the imagery of its blessing and prayer, and the work sinks to decorative texture.

## 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/jangarh-kalam/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/madhubani/design.md