Itzchak Tarkay style reference and prompts

Decorative modernist painting with flattened interlocking planes, elongated elegant contours, and a patchwork of matte geometric color. Mustard, teal, brick red, ochre, cream, and charcoal form warm-cool rhythm. Fine dark outlines define selective edges, while broad brush-filled shapes and uneven pigment preserve a handmade surface. Simplified faces and quiet negative spaces let the composition remain figurative yet strongly abstract.

A square modernist painting shows two elegantly dressed women sitting close together at a small round cafe table. The left woman wears a dark jacket and compact dark hat; her long pale neck and angular face turn toward her companion. The right woman has a smooth black bob and a sleeveless orange, yellow, and cream dress, with one elbow resting on the table and her hand near her chin. Their narrow eyes and small red mouths are simplified into calm graphic marks. A stemmed glass with red liquid, a dark bottle, and two pale round pieces of fruit sit on the tabletop. Behind them, an abstract wall of overlapping rectangular color blocks rises in mustard, teal, brick red, ochre, cream, and gray. A dark bent chair back appears at the right edge. The bodies form flattened, interlocking planes rather than anatomically modeled volume. Thin dark outlines and broad matte color shapes carry most of the structure; selective pale highlights on cheeks, necks, and arms suggest indoor light. The composition is intimate and still, with the conversation implied by faces leaning inward. Visible brush texture and slight unevenness in the pigment prevent the geometry from feeling mechanically clean. The result is a decorative cafe scene balanced between figurative storytelling and abstract color architecture.