<h1 id="maurice-utrillo-montmartre-white-period-or-lora-(krea2)">MAURICE UTRILLO — MONTMARTRE WHITE PERIOD | LoRA (Krea2)</h1>One weight slider — and the frame fills with the melancholic, thickly impastoed streets of early 20th-century Montmartre. No bright Post-Impressionist cheer: this is the White Period (1909–1914), where crumbling plaster facades, empty cobblestones, and quiet churches are rendered with a palette knife in muted creams, gray-blues, and soft ochres.<h3 id="about-the-artist-and-the-style">About the Artist &amp; The Style</h3><ul><li>Maurice Utrillo is the painter of Montmartre's quiet corners, famous for his "White Period" where he rendered the peeling plaster of Parisian buildings with thick impasto and a profoundly melancholic mood.</li><li>Signature Concept: The poetry of empty streets. Utrillo's frames are almost always devoid of people, focusing instead on the architecture itself — churches, bistros, windmills, and the crumbling walls of the zone fortifications.</li><li>The Manner: Thick impasto applied with a palette knife, often worked directly from postcards and photographs (making him a proto-photorealist). The surfaces are heavily textured, scratched, and layered.</li><li>Palette &amp; Light: Muted creams, off-whites, gray-blues, dusty ochres, and muted sage. Light is always overcast or twilight, giving the streets a timeless, suspended quality.</li><li>The Subjects: Sacré-Cœur, Moulin de la Galette, place du Tertre, village churches, empty cobblestone lanes, shuttered bistros, and the fortified outskirts of Paris.</li></ul><h3 id="tested-generation-settings-(krea2)">Tested Generation Settings (Krea2)</h3>ParameterValueLoRAMaurice_Utrillo_krea2_3384979_epoch_20Base modelKrea2Steps8 (Optimized for Krea2's distilled architecture — preserves impasto texture without over-blending)SamplerEuler ASchedulerBong TangentResolution1024×1536 (vertical narrow street) / 1536×1024 (panoramic Sacré-Cœur view)LoRA weight0.85–1.0 (at 1.0 the plaster texture and palette-knife drag lock in perfectly)Positive-only disciplineoil painting, Montmartre street, white period impasto, palette knife texture<h3 id="trigger-words">Trigger Words</h3>Core Triggers: <code>oil painting in the manner of Maurice Utrillo</code>, <code>Montmartre street scene</code>, <code>white period impasto</code> Boosters: <code>crumbling plaster facade</code>, <code>melancholic empty street</code>, <code>palette knife texture</code>, <code>gray-blue and cream palette</code>, <code>thick impasto brushwork</code><h3 id="versions">Versions</h3>V1 (Epoch 20) — The White Period Edition. 40 lines covering Montmartre streets (1–8), churches (9–16), suburbs and zone (17–24), bistros and windmills (25–32), and seasons/moods (33–40).<h3 id="rights-and-ethics">Rights &amp; Ethics</h3><ul><li>Unofficial style study capturing the early 20th-century School of Paris and Montmartre manner.</li><li>Historical-artistic context: the melancholic urban lyricism of pre-war Paris.</li></ul>

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