Cassandre Transport Lithograph (Style-Only, Image-Conditioned)
Style register: A. M. Cassandre's interwar transport lithographs, monumental low vantage, offset color planes, and disciplined directional momentum without advertising copy.

The prompt
Re-render this image as an interwar transport lithograph in the visual register of A. M. Cassandre, circa 1927 to 1935. Keep the source subject in its original place, but build its visible surfaces from broad, opaque lithographic color separations on matte cream poster paper. Set one hard vanishing point low in the frame; let existing edges taper toward it through exaggerated but coherent perspective, so the subject feels monumental without changing its pose or silhouette. Sweep two or three parallel arcs of pale exhaust-like light or motion behind the subject only where the background permits. Use midnight navy, warm stone, oxidized teal, and burnt orange, with charcoal reserved for the deepest cutout shadows. Ink each color through a separate plate: show subtle misregistration at a few edges, stone-grain mottling inside the largest flats, and the faint pressure of ink in the paper tooth. Simplify distant context into wedges and stacked horizons instead of inventing a vehicle, station, or skyline. The image should feel confidently engineered, expansive, and slightly lonely, not theatrical or cinematic. The main silhouette must remain legible at small size. Leave a calm, uncluttered band of negative space along the top or bottom edge where a title could sit. Strictly no on-canvas text, no legible lettering, no signature, no watermark, no logos. Preserve the subject, pose, and composition of the source image exactly, change only the medium and rendering. Aspect ratio matches source.
What it is doing
The transport sheet sold a future in which distance had already been conquered. Its converging planes turn the viewer into a passenger before any journey begins. Remove the ticket and itinerary, and the remaining design still persuades through scale, direction, and certainty.
Tuning knobs
- Vantage: `low monumental vanishing point` (signature) vs `level horizon` vs `raised aerial perspective`
- Plate palette: `navy teal and orange` (signature) vs `charcoal and ocher` vs `blue and cream`
- Motion arcs: `two pale background sweeps` (signature) vs `one narrow arc` vs `none`
- Ink texture: `subtle stone grain` (signature) vs `smooth opaque fields` vs `rough plate wear`
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