# Social Realism (ソーシャル・リアリズム) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.619 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/social-realism
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of Social Realism, a style from Printmaking and Social Movements, 1920s–1940s.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style exists for: communicating labor and inequality publicly through people and environments rather than statistics alone, or translating social critique into legible posters, murals, editorial work or exhibitions. Choose one subject and hold it across all four images.

## What has to be visible

- Workers, unemployed people, migrants and urban crowds centered
- Factories, housing and streets making conditions legible
- Direct figuration spanning prints, murals and photographs
- Individual hardship connected to institutions or collective problems

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: Put human action forward and connect it to factories, streets, housing and crowds as readable causes and relations
- Type and lettering: Use short direct headings plus names, places and dates; do not overwrite a subject's voice with decorative slogans
- Material and surface: Use the forceful contrast of woodcut, lithograph, mural or grain-bearing photography suited to reproduction and public display
- Colour: #C7B58A carries the ground, #A33E2F is the colour the style is remembered by, #2A2925 holds text and outlines. Read off real works, so treat them as a direction rather than a fixed palette.
- What it should feel like: rebellion, trust, intimacy

## What goes wrong

Do not consume labor or poverty as dramatic material. Separate it from the state heroics of Socialist Realism and state who represents whose conditions for what purpose.

## 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/social-realism/design.md