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Generated Thick Descriptor (via Chat-GPT 4): Mannerism, a style originating in late Italian Renaissance, features exaggerated proportions, highly stylized poses, and a lack of clear perspective. This style often displays asymmetrical or unnaturally elegant compositions, privileging tension and instability over the balance and clarity of earlier Renaissance art. To replicate this style, distort proportions, challenge symmetry, leverage complex and unusual poses, and play with perspective to generate tension and instability.
The table below depicts New York City’s Times Square and Northern Ontario’s Lake Kenogamissi. The left column shows the results of a “thin” prompt, in which the style was requested in name only. The right column shows the results of a “thick” prompt, in which the generated prompt was used.
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| Lake |  |  |
| Times Square |  |  |
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