I was most impressed at the result of applying an art nouveau effect to an old photo that I had of me with a friend. Figure 1 shows the original photo with Hong Kong harbour in the background.
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The Semantic Lens: A Comprehensive Taxonomy of Art Styles, Photographic Effects, and Computational Aesthetics for Generative Editing
1. Introduction: The Era of Semantic Styling
The convergence of computational photography and generative artificial intelligence has fundamentally altered the landscape of visual creation. Tools such as the "Nano Bananas" editor within the Gemini ecosystem represent a paradigm shift from pixel-level manipulation to semantic-level styling.
This report serves as an exhaustive encyclopedia and strategic guide for the advanced user. It deconstructs the vast spectrum of art history, analog chemical processes, cinematic lighting theories, and emerging digital-native aesthetics into a structured taxonomy. By understanding the underlying mechanics—the "visual DNA"—of these styles, users can leverage the full capability of generative tools to transform personal photography into deliberate, resonant works of art. We will explore how specific movements, from the organic sinuosity of the fin-de-siècle to the glitch-laden decay of the digital age, can be synthesized with personal imagery stored in Google Photos.
The analysis is divided into six primary domains: The Painterly Canon (Historical Art Movements), The Photographic Darkroom (Analog Simulations), Cinematic and Lighting Aesthetics, Digital and Internet-Native Aesthetics, Materiality and Texture, and Auteur Styles. Each section provides historical context, visual characteristics, and specific prompt-engineering strategies tailored for AI-driven editing environments like Nano Bananas.
2. Part I: The Painterly Canon — Historical Art Movements
The user’s stated preference for Art Nouveau indicates an appreciation for stylization that reinterprets reality rather than merely recording it. To fully exploit this, one must understand the specific visual vocabularies of the major art movements. These styles do not just change colors; they alter the geometry, perspective, and fundamental reality of the image.
2.1 The Fin-de-Siècle and The Organic Line
The turn of the 20th century was defined by a rebellion against industrialization and academic rigidity. This era produced styles that are particularly well-suited for portraiture and nature photography due to their decorative qualities.
2.1.1 Art Nouveau (The New Art)
Flourishing between 1890 and 1910, Art Nouveau is the style the user has already identified as a favorite. It is characterized by the "Gesamtkunstwerk" (total work of art) philosophy, attempting to erase the boundary between fine art and utilitarian object.
Visual Philosophy: The central motif is the "whiplash curve"—a violent, sinuous line derived from nature (vines, flower stems, flowing hair) that resists the static geometry of the right angle. It draws heavily from the biological world, emphasizing growth, asymmetry, and fluidity.
The "Femme Fleur": In the context of AI portraiture, Art Nouveau is transformative. It often reframes the subject as a "Femme Fleur" (flower woman), integrating the human figure with botanical elements. Hair is not rendered as individual strands but as a unified, flowing mass that merges with the background.
Prompting & Editing Strategy:
Keywords: "Whiplash curves," "organic asymmetry," "muted earth tones," "decorative borders," "Alphonse Mucha style," "botanical intricacy".
Color Palette: The palette is distinctively muted: ochre, olive green, faded gold, antique rose, and mustard yellow. It avoids the harsh primary colors of later movements.
Application: Use Nano Bananas to apply this style to images of gardens, forests, or portraits. The AI will tend to flatten the depth of field, replacing background bokeh with intricate, linear patterns reminiscent of a lithograph poster.
2.1.2 The Vienna Secession (Sezessionstil)
While often grouped with Art Nouveau, the Vienna Secession (formed in 1897 by Gustav Klimt and others) represents a shift toward geometric symbolism and opulence.
Visual Characteristics: This style is defined by the "Golden Phase" of Klimt. It merges the organic curves of Art Nouveau with Byzantine mosaic influences. The focus shifts from the flow of the line to the ornamentation of the surface.
Key Differentiators: Unlike the purely vegetal forms of Art Nouveau, the Secession style incorporates square patterns, checkerboards, and rigid vertical compositions alongside the organic.
AI Implementation: This is the ultimate style for "luxury" portraiture. It replaces the environment with a flat, shimmering field of gold leaf and decorative geometric shapes, isolating the subject's face and hands as the only photorealistic elements.
Prompting Strategy: "Gustav Klimt style," "gold leaf texture," "Byzantine mosaic," "decorative geometry," "rich symbolism."
2.1.3 The Arts and Crafts Movement
Preceding Art Nouveau, this British movement led by William Morris championed the return to medieval craftsmanship and honest materials.
Visual Philosophy: It rejected the mass-produced, shoddy aesthetic of the Industrial Revolution. Designs feature dense, repeating, interlocking botanical patterns inspired by British flora (acanthus, willow, strawberry thief).
Visual Markers:
Flatness: Unlike the 3D illusionism of Renaissance art, Arts and Crafts designs embrace the 2D nature of wallpaper and tapestry.
Symmetry: Designs are often symmetrical or intricately tessellated grids of nature, differentiating them from the asymmetrical flow of Art Nouveau.
Palette: Deep indigos, brick reds, and forest greens derived from natural vegetable dyes.
Application: This style effectively turns a landscape photo into a textile pattern. It is less about the subject and more about the texture of the image, making it appear like a woodblock print or a woven tapestry.
2.2 The Modernist Break: Geometry and Emotion
Following the decorative era, art splintered into movements that deconstructed reality (Cubism), celebrated speed (Futurism), or unleashed raw emotion (Fauvism).
2.2.1 Art Deco (The Machine Aesthetic)
Emerging in the 1920s, Art Deco is the antithesis of Art Nouveau. Where Nouveau is soft and organic, Deco is hard, sleek, and industrial.
Visual Philosophy: It celebrates the machine age, speed, and luxury. It is the style of the skyscraper, the ocean liner, and the jazz club.
Visual Markers:
Geometry: The zigzag, the sunburst, the chevron, and the stepped pyramid (ziggurat).
Materials: Chrome, steel, black lacquer, glass, and inlaid wood.
Palette: High contrast—black and gold, silver and emerald, ruby and diamond white.
AI Editing Strategy: Applying an Art Deco style sharpens the image. It introduces symmetry and rigid lines. A portrait will take on the gloss of a 1920s Vogue cover or a Tamara de Lempicka painting—skin becomes metallic or porcelain, and shadows become sharp and dramatic.
2.2.2 Cubism
Pioneered by Picasso and Braque, Cubism abandons the single viewpoint.
Visual Mechanics: The subject is analyzed, broken up, and reassembled in an abstracted form. It depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints simultaneously.
Analytic Cubism: Monochromatic (browns/greys), highly fragmented, almost abstract.
Synthetic Cubism: Brighter colors, flatter shapes, collage elements (newspaper, textures).
AI Application: This style is aggressive. It will fracture the user's photos, turning a face into a collection of geometric planes. It is less about "beautification" and more about structural analysis.
2.2.3 Fauvism ("The Wild Beasts")
Led by Henri Matisse and André Derain around 1905, Fauvism is defined by the liberation of color from its descriptive function.
Visual Philosophy: Trees do not have to be green; the sky does not have to be blue. Color is used to express emotion, not reality.
Visual Markers:
Unnatural Color: Strident, clashing hues applied directly from the tube.
Wild Brushwork: Visible, rough, and energetic strokes.
Simplification: Forms are reduced to their bare essentials, often outlined in heavy dark lines.
Prompting Strategy: "Matisse style," "vibrant unnatural colors," "wild brushstrokes," "expressive landscape." This is ideal for turning dull vacation photos into explosive, joyful art pieces.
2.2.4 Surrealism
Originating in the 1920s, Surrealism seeks to resolve the contradictory conditions of dream and reality.
Visual Philosophy: Influenced by Freudian psychoanalysis, it uses non-sequiturs, juxtaposition, and dream logic.
Visual Markers:
The Impossible: Melting clocks (Dalí), men in bowler hats with floating apples (Magritte), lonely metaphysical landscapes (De Chirico).
Hyper-Realism: Unlike Impressionism, Surrealist objects are often painted with extreme, almost photographic precision, but placed in impossible contexts.
AI Implementation: Nano Bananas creates "hallucinations" effectively here. A prompt like "Surrealist style, a giant fish floating through a city street" leverages the AI's ability to blend disparate objects seamlessly.
2.3 The Pre-Modern and Classical
Sometimes the most striking digital effect is a return to the techniques of the Old Masters.
2.3.1 The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
A mid-19th-century English movement that rejected the mechanistic approach of Mannerist artists who followed Raphael.
Visual Philosophy: A return to abundant detail, intense color, and complex compositions typical of Italian Quattrocento art.
Visual Markers:
Hyper-Real Nature: Every leaf, moss patch, and insect is depicted with equal focus and microscopic detail.
Luminosity: They painted on wet white grounds to create a jewel-like inner glow.
The Romantic Subject: Women with voluminous red hair, pale skin, and loose, medieval-inspired clothing.
AI Application: This style is perfect for outdoor portraiture. It imparts a "fairy-tale" quality, softening the atmosphere while paradoxically sharpening natural details. It evokes a mood of melancholy and romance.
2.3.2 Baroque and Chiaroscuro
The style of the 17th century (Caravaggio, Rembrandt) is defined by drama and light.
Visual Markers:
Tenebrism/Chiaroscuro: Extreme contrast between light and dark. The subject emerges from a deep, black void.
Drama: Compositions are dynamic, capturing the moment of highest tension.
Richness: Deep reds, browns, and golds.
Prompting: "Baroque style," "Caravaggio lighting," "dramatic shadows," "rich oil painting." This transforms a selfie into a solemn, museum-worthy portrait.
2.3.3 Ukiyo-e (Pictures of the Floating World)
A genre of Japanese art (17th–19th century) utilizing woodblock prints.
Visual Markers:
Flat Perspective: Lack of vanishing point perspective; space is stacked.
Line Quality: Strong, fluid outlines (wire lines).
Subject Matter: Landscapes (Hokusai), beautiful women, kabuki actors.
Gradients: The bokashi technique creates soft color gradients (e.g., in the sky).
AI Application: Converts photos into flat, graphic illustrations with heavy outlines and a distinct limited color palette (Prussian blue, indigo, salmon pink).
3. Part II: The Photographic Darkroom — Analog Simulations
While painterly styles abstract reality, photographic styles manipulate the mechanism of capturing it. AI tools like Nano Bananas excel at simulating the "flaws" and chemical peculiarities of analog film, which are prized for their nostalgic and aesthetic qualities.
3.1 Chemical Anomalies and Processes
3.1.1 Solarization (The Sabatier Effect)
Discovered accidentally in the darkroom by Man Ray and Lee Miller, this effect occurs when a print is briefly re-exposed to white light during development.
Visual Mechanics: The image is partially reversed in tone. Shadows remain dark, but highlights may turn dark or grey.
The Mackie Line: A distinctive thin white or black line forms at the boundary between high-contrast areas (where the chemical reaction was most turbulent).
Aesthetic: The result is surreal, metallic, and ghostly. Skin looks like silver plating. It separates the subject from reality, making them appear as a statue or an x-ray.
Prompting: "Solarization effect," "Man Ray style," "sabatier effect," "metallic skin," "inverted highlights".
3.1.2 Cross-Processing (X-Pro)
A technique involving the deliberate processing of film in the "wrong" chemical solution.
C-41 in E-6: Developing color negative film in slide chemicals results in muted, low-contrast pastel images.
E-6 in C-41: Developing slide film (transparency) in negative chemicals. This is the classic "X-Pro" look.
Visuals: Extreme contrast, crushed blacks, blown-out highlights, and wild color shifts (often toward green, yellow, or cyan).
Texture: Increased grain and saturation.
Cultural Context: This aesthetic defined 1990s fashion photography and the early "Lomo" look. It conveys high energy, grit, and urban decay.
3.1.3 Cyanotype
An early photographic process (1842) using iron salts rather than silver.
Visuals: The image is rendered entirely in shades of Prussian Blue and white. There are no other colors.
Aesthetic: Architectural and botanical. Because it was used for blueprints and plant studies (Anna Atkins), it has a scientific, vintage feel.
AI Application: "Cyanotype style," "blueprint aesthetic," "Prussian blue monochrome." This acts as a powerful unifying filter for complex images.
3.1.4 Aerochrome (Infrared Photography)
Originally a military surveillance film developed by Kodak to detect camouflage (chlorophyll reflects infrared light; green paint does not).
The Palette: This false-color reversal film renders the world in a psychedelic spectrum:
Green Foliage becomes bright Magenta, Pink, or Red.
Blue Sky becomes deep, dark Navy or Cyan.
Skin Tones can appear waxy, orange, or pale.
Aesthetic: Otherworldly and dreamlike. It is arguably the most striking landscape filter available.
Prompting: "Kodak Aerochrome," "Infrared photography," "false color," "pink trees," "magenta foliage".
3.2 Optical and Camera Effects
3.2.1 Tilt-Shift (The Miniature Effect)
Achieved physically with a lens that tilts relative to the sensor plane.
Visual Mechanics: The plane of focus is manipulated so that only a narrow strip of the image is sharp, while the top and bottom are heavily blurred.
Psychological Effect: This mimics the shallow depth of field our eyes experience when looking at very small objects (macro vision). Consequently, the brain interprets a full-sized city or landscape as a "toy model" or "miniature set".
Usage: Best applied to high-angle shots of cities, crowds, or traffic.
3.2.2 Double Exposure
A technique where two distinct images are exposed onto the same frame of film.
Visual Composition: Typically involves a silhouette of a person (the "container") filled with a texture or landscape (the "content").
AI Capability: Nano Bananas is adept at this semantic blending. A user can prompt "Double exposure of a profile portrait and a pine forest," and the AI will mask the forest inside the dark areas of the profile while keeping the light areas (sky) clear.
Aesthetic: Dreamlike, internal, psychological. It visually represents the idea of "head in the clouds" or being "one with nature."
3.2.3 Long Exposure
Keeping the shutter open for an extended period.
Visuals: Moving elements blur, while static elements remain sharp.
Water: Becomes silky, misty, or glass-like (removing ripples).
Lights: Become "light trails" (streaks of color from cars).
Clouds: Become streaky painterly strokes in the sky.
AI Simulation: AI can identify "water" or "sky" segments in a still photo and synthetically apply directional blur to simulate this effect without a tripod.
3.2.4 Bokeh
The aesthetic quality of the blur produced in the out-of-focus parts of an image.
Visuals: Background lights turn into soft, glowing orbs (circles, or hexagons depending on the lens aperture blades).
Usage: Separates the subject from a messy background. "Creamy bokeh" is a hallmark of high-end professional portrait lenses.
4. Part III: Cinematic and Lighting Aesthetics
Lighting is not merely illumination; it is narrative. AI tools like Nano Bananas have "relighting" capabilities , allowing users to impose complex lighting scenarios on flat images. Understanding the terminology of cinematographers is essential for controlling this.
4.1 Atmospheric Lighting Conditions
4.1.1 The Golden Hour
The "Magic Hour" occurring shortly after sunrise or before sunset.
Physics: Sunlight travels through a thicker layer of atmosphere, scattering blue light and leaving warm reds, oranges, and yellows. The angle is low, creating long shadows.
Visuals: Warm, gold-tinted light; soft, diffused skin tones; rim lighting (halos) around hair if backlit.
Mood: Nostalgia, warmth, romance, happiness, optimism.
4.1.2 The Blue Hour
The period of twilight just before sunrise or after sunset, when the sun is below the horizon.
Physics: The sky is illuminated by residual indirect sunlight (Rayleigh scattering), which is predominantly blue.
Visuals: Deep indigo/blue skies. In urban settings, this contrasts beautifully with the warm yellow/orange of artificial streetlights (color contrast).
Mood: Melancholy, mystery, tranquility, solitude, cinematic cool.
4.2 Studio Portrait Lighting Patterns
AI models are trained on millions of studio portraits, meaning they "know" these specific lighting setups.
4.2.1 Rembrandt Lighting
Named after the Dutch master's technique.
Visual Marker: A specific "chiaroscuro" effect where one half of the face is lit, and the shadowed side has a small, inverted triangle of light on the cheek (under the eye).
Effect: It adds volume and drama. It is a "masculine" or "serious" lighting pattern that models the face effectively.
4.2.2 Butterfly (Paramount) Lighting
The classic Hollywood glamour setup.
Visual Marker: The key light is placed high and directly in front of the face. This casts a small, butterfly-shaped shadow directly under the nose.
Effect: It highlights the cheekbones and creates a symmetrical, beautifying light. It is often used for female subjects in fashion and beauty photography.
4.2.3 Split Lighting
Visual Marker: The light source is 90 degrees to the side of the subject. The face is split perfectly down the center—one side in light, the other in deep shadow.
Effect: Highly dramatic, aggressive, or mysterious. It hides half the identity, often used for "villain" or "conflicted hero" archetypes.
4.3 Film Noir Style
A cinematic style defined by German Expressionism and 1940s crime dramas.
Visuals: Black and white (or highly desaturated).
Low-Key Lighting: The image is mostly dark (shadows), with selective highlights.
Venetian Blind Effect: Light filtered through slats casts harsh, linear shadows across the subject or background, symbolizing entrapment (the "prison bars" motif).
Atmospherics: Fog, cigarette smoke, rain-slicked streets at night.
Prompting: "Film Noir," "chiaroscuro," "femme fatale," "hard shadows," "venetian blinds shadow," "high contrast B&W."
4.4 Cinematic Color Grading
Teal and Orange: The most common color scheme in modern cinema.
Theory: Skin tones fall in the orange spectrum. The complementary color to orange is teal (blue-green). By pushing shadows/backgrounds toward teal and highlights/skin toward orange, maximum visual contrast is achieved.
Effect: The subject "pops" out of the screen. It looks distinctly "Hollywood".
Technicolor: Mimicking the hyper-saturated, vibrant look of 1950s color film (e.g., The Wizard of Oz). Reds and Greens are particularly punchy and unnatural.
5. Part IV: Digital and Internet-Native Aesthetics
These styles did not originate in a studio or on a canvas, but in the code, compression, and subcultures of the internet. They are "native" to the digital realm.
5.1 Vaporwave
A micro-genre of art and music (circa 2010) that critiques and celebrates 1980s/90s consumerism.
Visual Icons: Classical sculpture (Michelangelo’s David) placed in neon digital voids; Windows 95 dialog boxes; palm trees; fuzzy VHS glitches; early 3D computer graphics (checkerboard floors).
Palette: "Bi-lighting" (Neon Pink and Cyan), pastel purples.
Philosophy: "Hauntology"—a nostalgia for a "lost future" that never happened. It is ironic, detached, and consumerist.
5.2 Glitch Art
The aestheticization of digital error.
Visuals: "Datamoshing" (pixels smearing across frames), compression artifacts (JPEG blocks), chromatic aberration (RGB color separation drifting apart), and "noise."
Philosophy: It reveals the fragile, constructed nature of the digital image. By breaking the image, the medium itself becomes visible.
Prompting: "Glitch art," "datamosh," "chromatic aberration," "VHS distortion," "digital decay."
5.3 Pixel Art
Nostalgia for the hardware limitations of 8-bit and 16-bit video games.
Visuals: The image is quantized into a grid of large, visible colored squares (pixels).
Palette: Limited color palettes (e.g., the 56 colors of the NES system).
Lo-Fi Variant: Often combined with "Lo-Fi Hip Hop" aesthetics—anime-style study rooms, rain on windows, cozy vibes.
AI Application: Converting a high-res photo to pixel art removes noise and detail, abstracting the image into pure information and color.
5.4 Liminal Spaces / Dreamcore / Weirdcore
Surreal internet aesthetics focusing on "transitional" spaces.
Visuals: Empty hallways, playgrounds at night, indoor pools with no people, endless suburban streets. The lighting is often flat, unnatural flash photography.
Mood: Anemoia (nostalgia for a time you never knew) and unease. It mimics the logic of dreams—familiar but "wrong."
Visual Markers: Low quality (compressed), bright eyes superimposed on faces, floating text, pastel suburban hellscapes.
5.5 Cyberpunk
Established visually by Blade Runner and Neuromancer.
Visuals: High-tech, low-life.
Environment: Perpetual night, rain, neon signs (kanji), wet pavement reflections.
Scale: Massive skyscrapers, holograms, urban density.
Palette: Neon pinks, purples, and blues against deep blacks.
AI Application: Turns any city photo into a futuristic dystopia.
5.6 Synthwave / Retrowave
Influenced by 1980s soundtracks and arcade games.
Visuals: A vector-grid landscape (usually glowing purple lines) receding into a horizon with a massive, striped sun setting in the background.
Palette: Sunset colors (orange, violet, magenta) and black.
Car Culture: Often features a DeLorean or Lamborghini Countach.
6. Part V: Materiality and Texture
AI can simulate not just styles, but physical materials, giving digital images a tactile quality.
6.1 Claymation / Plasticine
Simulating stop-motion animation styles like Aardman Animations (Wallace and Gromit).
Visuals: Surfaces look soft and malleable (like Play-Doh).
Texture: Crucial details include visible "fingerprints" on the characters, suggesting they were hand-sculpted.
Lighting: Warm, studio-style lighting that emphasizes the physical volume of the clay.
AI Implementation: Using the prompt "Claymation style" or "Aardman style" will round off sharp edges, simplify textures, and give skin a matte, plasticine finish.
6.2 Paper Cutout (Kirigami)
Visuals: The image appears to be constructed from layers of colored paper stacked on top of each other.
Depth: Shadows between the layers are essential to create the "parallax" or "diorama" effect.
Aesthetic: Minimalist, geometric, and crafty. It works exceptionally well for landscapes and illustrations.
6.3 Watercolor
Visuals: Translucency, "wet-on-wet" bleeding edges, visible paper grain.
Mechanics: Pigment pools in certain areas, creating "hard edges" where water dried. Colors blend organically.
AI Challenge: Capturing the unpredictability and fluid dynamics of watercolor is a specific strength of generative models compared to simple digital filters.
6.4 Isometric Art
A method of visual representation for 3D objects in 2D dimensions.
Visuals: Parallel lines never converge (no vanishing point). The viewing angle is typically 30 degrees off horizontal.
Aesthetic: It looks like a "SimCity" game or a technical diagram. It creates a "God's eye view" of the subject, making the world look like a tidy, organized model.
7. Part VI: Auteur Styles
Certain directors and artists have such distinctive visual fingerprints that their names function as powerful style adjectives in AI prompting.
7.1 Wes Anderson
Key Characteristics:
Symmetry: Obsessive central framing. The subject is dead center.
Palette: Specific pastel color distinctives (e.g., Grand Budapest Hotel pinks, Moonrise Kingdom yellows/khakis).
Composition: Planimetric staging (flat, 2D composition like a dollhouse) and overhead "knolling" shots (objects arranged at 90-degree angles).
Mood: Whimsical, quirky, deadpan, and melancholic.
7.2 Tim Burton
Key Characteristics:
Gothic Whimsy: Heavily influenced by German Expressionism (crooked lines, jagged angles, spirals).
Characters: Pale skin, sunken large eyes (often with dark circles), spindly elongated limbs.
Palette: High contrast Black and White, or muted tones with splashes of deep purple/red.
Mood: Macabre, spooky, yet innocent.
7.3 Studio Ghibli (Hayao Miyazaki)
Key Characteristics:
Backgrounds: Lush, hand-painted nature. The specific "Ghibli Clouds" (cumulonimbus), verdant greens, and sparkling water are iconic.
Food: Hyper-appetizing, glossy depictions of food (the "Ghibli food" phenomenon).
Mood: Ma (negative space/pause), peacefulness, nostalgia, and a deep respect for nature and flight.
7.4 M.C. Escher
Key Characteristics:
Geometry: Tessellations (repeating interlocking patterns where negative space becomes positive space).
Architecture: Impossible spaces, infinite staircases, gravity-defying structures.
Technique: Lithograph/Woodcut texture (monochrome, cross-hatching, stippling).
8. Strategic Implementation in "Nano Bananas"
To effectively use these styles, one must understand the specific capabilities of the Nano Bananas tool as described in the research.
8.1 The "Character Consistency" Workflow
One of the biggest challenges in style transfer is losing the identity of the subject. Nano Bananas features "Character Consistency".
Application: When applying a heavy style like Tim Burton or Cubism, the user should explicitly prompt to maintain facial landmarks.
Prompt Structure: "A portrait of [User] in the style of Tim Burton. Maintain subject likeness. Pale skin, large eyes, gothic background."
Result: The AI will adapt the proportions and texture (large eyes, sketch lines) to the style while keeping the fundamental biometric data recognizable.
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8.2 Reference Image Transfer
Nano Bananas supports "Style Transfer" from an image.
Strategy: Instead of just describing "Art Nouveau," the user should upload a high-resolution image of a Mucha poster or a Klimt painting as a style reference.
Mechanism: The AI extracts the texture (e.g., gold leaf), palette (e.g., faded ochre), and line quality (e.g., whiplash curve) and maps it onto the user's photo.
8.3 In-Painting and Object Placement
The tool allows for "Object Placement" and "Background Changes" via natural language.
Scenario: Transforming a living room photo into a Cyberpunk scene.
Workflow:
Select the window using a mask.
Prompt: "Replace view with a rainy, neon-lit futuristic city, Blade Runner style."
Select the room lighting.
Prompt: "Relight room with teal and orange neon glow to match the window."
Result: A composite image that feels coherent because the lighting inside matches the style outside.
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8.4 Technical Prompt Construction
To get the best results, use a "Semantic Stack" in your prompt:
Subject: "A portrait of a woman..."
Style/Movement: "...in the style of Art Nouveau..."
Artist Reference: "...inspired by Alphonse Mucha..."
Technical Modifiers: "...whiplash curves, floral border, flat perspective..."
Palette/Lighting: "...muted pastel palette, soft flat lighting..."
Medium/Material: "...lithograph print texture."
9. Summary Table of Styles for Experimentation
The following table synthesizes the styles discussed for quick reference and experimentation.
| Category | Style Name | Key Visual Markers | Best Used For |
| Art History | Art Nouveau | Whiplash curves, organic, floral, Mucha | Portraits, Nature, Posters |
| Art Deco | Geometric, gold/black, chrome, symmetrical | Luxury, Architecture, Fashion | |
| Vienna Secession | Gold leaf, mosaic, Klimt, decorative | Formal Portraits, Abstract | |
| Pre-Raphaelite | Hyper-real nature, jewel tones, romance | Outdoor Portraits, Gardens | |
| Ukiyo-e | Flat perspective, outlines, woodblock texture | Landscapes, stylized portraits | |
| Surrealism | Dream logic, impossible objects, melting | Creative/Abstract concepts | |
| Photo Effects | Golden Hour | Warm glow, long shadows, rim light | Selfies, Travel, Warmth |
| Blue Hour | Deep blue sky, city lights, cool tones | Urban, Mood, Evening | |
| Film Noir | B&W, high contrast, shadows, fog | Dramatic portraits, Mystery | |
| Aerochrome | Pink foliage, deep blue sky, infrared | Landscapes, Forests | |
| Solarization | Metallic skin, inverted tones, surreal | Artistic portraits, Fashion | |
| Tilt-Shift | Blur top/bottom, miniature effect | High-angle City/Traffic | |
| Digital/Web | Vaporwave | Neon pink/blue, statues, glitch, 90s | Irony, Retro vibes |
| Cyberpunk | Neon, rain, night, high-tech, teal/orange | Urban, Sci-Fi, Night | |
| Pixel Art | Blocky, 8-bit, limited palette | Avatars, Retro gaming | |
| Material | Claymation | Plasticine texture, fingerprints, soft | Fun, Playful, Storybook |
| Paper Cutout | Layered paper, shadows, depth | Illustration, Simple scenes | |
| Auteur | Wes Anderson | Symmetry, pastel, flat, whimsical | Architecture, Group photos |
| Tim Burton | Gothic, dark, large eyes, spindly | Halloween, Moody portraits | |
| Studio Ghibli | Lush nature, painted clouds, peaceful | Landscapes, Food, Sky |
10. Conclusion
The "Nano Bananas" editor is not just a tool for correction; it is an engine for aesthetic translation. By utilizing this taxonomy, the user can move beyond random experimentation to deliberate artistic direction. Whether invoking the organic romance of Art Nouveau, the chemical surrealism of Solarization, or the digital nostalgia of Vaporwave, the key lies in the semantic specificity of the request. The AI acts as a skilled apprentice—it requires the master to know the difference between a "whiplash curve" and a "geometric zigzag" to produce the desired masterpiece. The recommendation is to begin building a personal "style vocabulary" from this list, testing how each aesthetic reinterprets the user's own photographic reality.
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