Federal Deco Mural Fresco (Style-Only, Image-Conditioned)
Style register: 1930s American public murals associated with federal arts programs, heroic broad silhouettes and mineral pigment bound to plaster.

The prompt
Re-render this image as a 1930s American public-building mural in the geometric register of federal-era Art Deco painting. Keep the source subject, its pose, and the arrangement of its elements exactly as they appear. Enlarge the visual weight of existing forms through broad, simplified color masses, not through added workers, machinery, or civic symbols. Lay earth-red, ocher, indigo, and limestone-white mineral pigments into damp plaster in wide brush passages; the wet surface should absorb color with chalky, uneven edges and occasional darker overlap where a day's work ended. Outline only major contours in warm charcoal. Organize the background into long staggered bands and shallow architectural arcs that support the source's existing depth, never displacing it with a new scene. Let strong diagonal light bind foreground and background into one legible public image, while hairline plaster cracks and faint trowel sweeps disclose its scale and making. The forms should feel steady and communal even when the source depicts a single object or person. Keep each large gesture readable across a hallway: no tiny narrative vignettes or medal-like emblems. The mood is resolute and generously public, with a quiet tension between idealized unity and visible hand labor. 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
A mural can make one gesture look like collective progress. The large forms invite a public reading, while the plaster joints keep track of each day's actual work. The monumental picture and the finite working day coexist on the same wall.
Tuning knobs
- Pigment: `earth red ocher and indigo` (signature) vs `blue and gray earths` vs `umber and pale green`
- Contour: `sparse charcoal major edges` (signature) vs `soft pigment edges` vs `strong brown outlines`
- Plaster: `visible day-work seams` (signature) vs `subtle trowel texture` vs `weathered fine cracks`
- Composition: `broad staggered bands` (signature) vs `shallow arcs` vs `vertical blocks`
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