Warhol Serial Silkscreen Grid (Style-Only, Image-Conditioned)
Style register: Warhol's serial screenprints as a study of registration drift across repeated impressions, not the isolated single-image album sleeve.

The prompt
Re-render this image as a serial Pop silkscreen assembled from four impressions of the exact same source image in a strict two-by-two grid, in the register of Andy Warhol's 1960s screenprint experiments. Preserve the same subject, pose, crop, and internal composition in every cell; the grid changes only repetition and printing. First photographically reduce the source to two broad values, then pull a coarse black image screen over separately printed flat color screens. In the upper left, hold the screens almost aligned. In the upper right, let the magenta plate drift slightly sideways. In the lower left, let cyan pool at one edge of the stencil. In the lower right, leave a small dry patch where the ink barely reaches the paper. Use hot magenta, sharp cyan, acid yellow, and velvety black against white stock, rotating their relationships between impressions without inventing props. Allow mesh grain, blunt squeegee drag, and ink density changes that make each pass singular. Keep even gutters and a clean border; refuse record-sleeve staging, an isolated central icon, or album packaging. The mood is repetitive but never identical, cheerful at first glance and unsettling on a second. 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 repeat promises interchangeable products, then exposes four different accidents. Rather than turning one silhouette into sleeve identity, this grid measures how imperfect printing can make sameness impossible.
Tuning knobs
- Grid density: `four equal impressions` (signature) vs `six small impressions` vs `two tall impressions`
- Color rotation: `magenta cyan yellow swap` (signature) vs `two-color inversion` vs `one fixed ink set`
- Drift: `one plate slightly offset` (signature) vs `precise alignment` vs `aggressive registration slip`
- Ink drag: `uneven squeegee pull` (signature) vs `smooth coverage` vs `dry rough pass`
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