Prompt:
A Masterpiece of Oneiric Decay: "The Crypto King's Clandestine Procession" Salvador Dali smiles upon this exquisite, sickening surrealism. A meticulously detailed oil painting, hyperrealistic yet impossibly dreamlike.
The scene unfolds: A spectral, hearse-like "Car of the Dead", its bodywork sculpted from polished obsidian and weeping wax, rests upon a barren plain. Its "unexpected teacup doors" are ajar, crafted from fractured porcelain and gilt-edged china, leading into a dark, interior void.
Above, the "chloroform sky" has achieved its sinister alignment: a swirling, nebulous vortex of muted celadon and ether-blue, inducing a palpable, drowsy stillness over the landscape.
The central action: From the teacup doorway, a "Milkman in the Candle" emerges—a figure with a pallid, waxy head instead of a flame, his uniform dripping with molten tallow. He performs "the dip, the drip", a slow, ritualistic pouring of a liquid that is both milk and wax into the arid soil.
To the side, the "sneering peasant" is rendered not as a man, but as a geological formation of dirt and contempt, a crumbling terra-cotta statue with a smoldering cigarette of dried hay lodged in its stony lip, indeed "smoking the weekend away" into a perpetual, hazy dusk. There is "no contest" to his existence; he is simply a fixed, dirty fact of the landscape, "right here, right there."
The climax: A "red smokescreen" billows from the car's exhaust, not of gas, but of rich, crimson velvet smoke. From within this haze, the "Crypto King is coming with us"—a figure of shimmering, digital static and gold leaf, being led blindly. His face is a smooth, featureless plate of white marble, upon which the act of "taking his eyes and nose" is being performed not with violence, but with delicate precision, as two ants carry away his carved alabaster senses.
Style: Cinematic lighting, Dutch master chiaroscuro, textures of melting metal, cracked porcelain, soft velvet, and hard stone. The composition is impossibly balanced, a visual paradox that is both unsettling and beautiful.
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