Richard Lindner style reference and prompts

Graphic modernist painting reduces forms to smooth planes, geometric profiles, hard-edged overlaps, and carefully placed facial marks. Saturated ocher yellow, vermilion, coral pink, teal, deep blue, green, and violet meet in large flat areas with small patterned passages. There is little modeled shadow; color adjacency and shape alone establish emphasis. Compress several overlapping silhouettes into a shallow space, using curved brims or arcs against rectangular blocks and a strong diagonal accent. The surface should feel clean and painted, with an almost posterlike clarity, yet retain enough fine ornamental marks to reward close viewing.

A square, brightly colored figurative painting places three stylized people shoulder to shoulder in a compressed interior. At the center, a yellow-faced figure in a black brimmed hat and dark suit faces slightly right. One eye is visible on a long flat plane of ocher skin; the angular nose projects toward the person beside him. A patterned red tie or scarf hangs against the black coat. In front of his body, a brown stringed instrument runs diagonally from the lower center toward the right edge, its neck marked by narrow repeated lines. At the left stands a pale-faced person wearing a blue cap and geometrically patterned clothing. A large yellow bird with green wings perches in front of this figure, its orange eye and curved beak turned left. On the right, a pale pink face with red lips and reddish hair looks away from the central figure; a high white collar and blocks of cool blue and warm red clothing continue downward. The background is layered in orange, red, yellow, and dusky purple patterned fields, with hard-edged circles and rectangles visible around the hats and shoulders. Faces are reduced to smooth flat planes, sharply triangular noses, and small precise eyes. The figures overlap without much atmospheric depth, and the bird and instrument provide vivid foreground accents. Light is represented through painted color contrast rather than a specific source or cast shadow. Saturated warm yellows and reds dominate, balanced by cool blue, green, and purple. The densely cropped arrangement feels theatrical and rhythmic, with repeated facial profiles, curved hat brims, and the instrument's diagonal line holding the composition together.