# Realism (写実主義) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.616 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/realism
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of Realism, a style from Figurative Painting, c. 1840s–1880s.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style exists for: making ordinary labor and life a central rather than supporting subject, or showing society through the weight of objects, bodies and places without heroic polish. Choose one subject and hold it across all four images.

## What has to be visible

- Contemporary labor, rural life and urban daily subjects
- Bodies, clothes and tools shown without idealization
- Large formats traditionally reserved for history given to ordinary people
- Restrained color and substantial surfaces for earth, fabric, stone and skin

Someone who knows this style should be able to point at each of these in the finished image.

## How to build it

- Layout and structure: Give everyday people the center and a serious scale, letting working posture and surrounding objects reveal living conditions
- Type and lettering: Restrain headline drama and prioritize specific names, places, work and time
- Material and surface: Use earth, sooty black and muted blue with palpable paint, leaving wear in hands and clothing visible
- Colour: #B49A70 carries the ground, #6F5B43 is the colour the style is remembered by, #3E4945 holds text and outlines. Read off real works, so treat them as a direction rather than a fixed palette.
- What it should feel like: trust, rebellion, intimacy

## What goes wrong

Photographic detail alone is not Realism. Without its choice of subject and refusal of idealization, it becomes only a rendering technique.

## Across the four

Keep every cue above present in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows the range this style covers 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 language described above.

Full design spec: https://indexstyle.org/styles/realism/design.md