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Styles & Visual Language · 3

Covers art-historical styles, regional traditions, media conventions, aesthetic genres, formal languages, and levels of realism or abstraction.

Art-Historical Styles, Movements & Schools Regional, Cultural & Traditional Visual Styles Media-Derived Visual Conventions Aesthetic Genres, Subcultures & Micro-aesthetics Shape Language, Proportion & Stylization Representational Fidelity, Realism & Abstraction

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Korean minhwa · Cat

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Korean minhwa

A historical Korean folk-painting tradition.

Korean Traditional Painting · Cat

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Korean Traditional Painting

A broad painting-historical context across periods and making conditions on the Korean peninsula.

Line art · Cat

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Line art

A whole-image format characterized by forms led by lines with limited or absent fill.

Literati painting · Cat

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Literati painting

A historical painting tradition developed through literati practice.

Madhubani painting · Cat

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Madhubani painting

A historical painting tradition associated with the Madhubani region of India.

Manga Visual Style · Cat

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Manga Visual Style

A visual style using line shadow and emphasis for readable people and scenes.

Mannerism · Cat

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Mannerism

An art style emphasizing elongated form and tension in unstable space.

Māori Art · Cat

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Māori Art

A broad context for diverse making practices associated with Māori people in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Mexican folk art · Cat

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Mexican folk art

A broad expression for folk arts connected with different communities and making practices across Mexico.

Minimalism · Cat

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Minimalism

A postwar art movement emphasizing reduced form and repetition.

Mughal miniature painting · Cat

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Mughal miniature painting

A historical courtly tradition of finely detailed painting.

Ndebele art · Cat

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Ndebele art

A historically situated visual-art tradition associated with Ndebele communities.

Neo-Impressionism · Cat

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Neo-Impressionism

An art style building luminous color relationships from small separated marks.

Neoclassicism · Cat

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Neoclassicism

An art style organizing form through clear contours and balanced composition.

Nihonga · Cat

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Nihonga

A modern Japanese painting form.

Op Art · Cat

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Op Art

An art movement using optical illusion and perceptual change.

Organic form language · Cat

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Organic form language

Form built chiefly from natural curves and irregular variation.

Ornamental form language · Cat

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Ornamental form language

Form that creates richness through repeated decorative elements and curves.

Persian miniature painting · Cat

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Persian miniature painting

A historical miniature-painting form developed in Persianate contexts.

Photorealistic representation · Cat

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Photorealistic representation

A representational level characterized by photograph-like continuity of light, texture, and spatial cues.

Picture-book conventions · Cat

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Picture-book conventions

A media convention characterized by readable scenes, narrative repetition, and clear focal action.

Pixel art · Cat

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Pixel art

A finished-image convention characterized by visible pixels, stepped edges, and deliberately limited detail.

Pointillism · Cat

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Pointillism

An art style constructing an image from small dot-like color marks.

Pop Art · Cat

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Pop Art

A postwar art movement that reframed popular-culture imagery.