Ruled Gel Facets
A print/graphic AI art style prompt drawing on Cubism and De Stijl. Copy the prompt below into any text-to-image model, then add your own subject at the end. The prompt only describes the look.
The blend
The prompt combines 3 ingredients and gives each one a job:
- Pablo Picasso — Picasso's analytic faceting creates shallow shifted angular planes with several viewpoints at once through straight-edged fractures.
- Piet Mondrian — Mondrian's orthogonal grid produces asymmetrical balance via thick black horizontal and vertical bars dividing flat matte fills of unequal rectangles.
- Overlapping transparent hard-edge planes — Overlapping transparent planes infuse crisp intersection tones where layers cross.
The fusion manifests as flat unmodulated colour in a restricted pigment set, ruler-straight edges with no blending, and one constant intersection value per overlap, transforming any subject through geometric reduction.
On 4 models
The same prompt and the same subject, rendered by different image models — so the differences are the model, not the prompt.
The prompt
Original
Pablo Picasso + Piet Mondrian + overlapping transparent hard-edge planes, where Picasso's analytic faceting creates shallow shifted angular planes with several viewpoints at once through straight-edged fractures, Mondrian's orthogonal grid produces asymmetrical balance via thick black horizontal and vertical bars dividing flat matte fills of unequal rectangles, and overlapping transparent planes infuse crisp intersection tones where layers cross. The fusion manifests as flat unmodulated colour in a restricted pigment set, ruler-straight edges with no blending, and one constant intersection value per overlap, transforming any subject through geometric reduction.
Render on BudgetPixel: FLUX 1.1 pro · GPT-Image-2 · Muse 1.0 · Nano Banana 2.1
Model-neutral
The same look with artist names and copyrighted references removed — for models that refuse them.
Analytic Cubism + De Stijl neoplasticism + overlapping transparent hard-edge planes, where shifted straight-edged facets create shallow angular planes seen from several viewpoints at once, thick black horizontal and vertical bars produce asymmetrical balance by dividing flat matte fills into unequal rectangles, and overlapping transparent planes infuse crisp intersection tones where layers cross. The fusion manifests as flat unmodulated colour in a restricted pigment set, ruler-straight edges with no blending, and one constant intersection value per overlap, transforming any subject through geometric reduction.
Render on BudgetPixel: FLUX 1.1 pro · GPT-Image-2 · Muse 1.0 · Nano Banana 2.1
Effect only
The recipe removed — no artists, no wild card, no movements. Only what the style does to a surface.
Forms are broken into shallow, angular facets with straight fractured edges, seen from several sides at once. Thick black horizontal and vertical bars divide the field into unequal rectangles of flat matte colour from a restricted pigment set. Translucent planes overlap with ruler-straight borders, each crossing showing one constant mixed tone. There are no gradients, no blending and almost no tonal variation, and balance comes from asymmetry.
Render on BudgetPixel: FLUX 1.1 pro · GPT-Image-2 · Muse 1.0 · Nano Banana 2.1
Using it
- Paste the prompt, then add your subject after it — for example …, a lighthouse on a cliff at dusk.
- The original names artists. Some hosted models refuse that or quietly render around it — on those, use the model-neutral version, which describes the same handling without the names.
- The effect-only version drops the recipe altogether and describes only what the style does to a surface. Use it to mix this look into another style, or when you want nothing traceable to a source.
- Every sample here was rendered against the same short subject — Quiet streets whisper / Her footsteps echo softly / Sunlight paints her path — so it shows the style, not a lucky subject.
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