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Drawing in a Metaphysical Square
The same drawing set into a deserted arcaded piazza, long raking shadows across empty paving and a locomotive on the far horizon.
How this was made
This piece began with a written instruction alone, with no photograph. The instruction is kept, so the record is complete rather than flattering.
THE PROMPT AND THE SETTINGS
PROMPT
POSITIVE: Place this Egon Schiele ink-and-gouache figure drawing into a Giorgio de Chirico metaphysical piazza, c. 1914. Keep the figure exactly as she is drawn: the same standing pose with both arms raised to the back of her head, the same clothes, the same nervous broken black ink contour, flat patchy ochre and grey-blue wash, unmodelled and linear, still reading as a drawing on paper rather than repainted in oil. Do not smooth, shade or render her realistically. Around her build a deserted Italian arcaded square: a long colonnade of arches receding sharply to one side, a blank classical facade, a distant brick tower, a small dark locomotive with a plume of smoke on the far horizon, and an empty green-grey sky. Late afternoon light raking in low from the side, casting long hard-edged geometric shadows across the paved ground, and giving the figure her own long cast shadow. Muted de Chirico palette of ochre, terracotta, olive green, slate grey and dusty cream, smooth flat oil handling in the architecture. Absolutely no other people. Uncanny, silent, deserted, dreamlike stillness, sharp perspective, oppressive emptiness. NEGATIVE: (none)
SETTINGS
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NOTE
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