# Photorealism × Pop Art — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=photorealism+pop-art
# Photorealism carries the structure. Pop Art 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 Photorealism (Style, 1968–1980s) and its accent from Pop Art (Style, 1950s–1960s). Structural cues: Reflections and highlights taken from the photograph; Depth of field painted exactly as the lens gave it; Commercial subjects drawn from the city; A smooth surface with every brushmark erased. Accent cues, used sparingly: Halftone dots; Bold outlines; Primary colors; Repetition. Composition: Keep the photograph's own crop and do not recompose the frame. Type and lettering: Let lettering appear inside the frame as signage, never laid over the image from outside. Let one material quality come from the second style: Red, yellow, blue, black outlines, halftones. Mood: Technology, Futurism, Trust, Exhilaration, Play. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #f5dd27, #ee2f2f, #2060b7. 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.

# Where the two fight
# - Photorealism and Pop Art share no intent, so the contrast has to become the subject rather than something to smooth over.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - Photorealism: Cleaning up the lens artefacts: polish out the focus fall-off, the grain and the fringing and the picture stops reading as a photograph made by hand, leaving airless illustration.
# - Pop Art: Overusing comic marks trivializes the content. Decide what you treat as mass culture.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/photorealism/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/pop-art/design.md