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Artistic style - the style of a particular artist or school or movement artistic style -
the style of a particular artist or school or movement; "an imaginative orchestral idiom"

Concept of Style is an important one in art, yet can be very confusing – the
word style has so many meanings.

 In art, when we talk about Style we can be referring to:

 Art of a particular historical time period (Medieval)
 Art of a particular nation (Italian Renaissance)
 A particular group of artists (the Pre-Raphaelites)
 The manner of an individual artist (Rubenesque, Titianesque,
Warholesque, Muchaesque)

A technical or artistic approach (Pointillism, Photorealism, abstract,

realistic etc…)

2. Reasons to study Artistic Styles:

1. To acquire useful categories for thinking about the common traits of

artworks, produced at various times and places.

2. To understand the artists, periods, countries, cultures and regions in

whose art a particular style frequently appears.

3. To compare and/or judge works of art that seem related by a look, or

feeling, or subject matter.

4. To understand the connections between an artist’s creative approach and

our reactions to their work.

5. To get special information, the inside scoop about social

changes.Categories of Artistic Style

3. Four Broad Categories of Style

1. The Style of Objective Accuracy – Realism.

2. The Style of Formal Order – a preference for Stability.

3. The Style of Emotion – the expression of Feelings.

4. The Style of Fantasy – invention of new Forms.

4. The Style of Formal Order –

 The expression of a preference for stability in art, and by implication in

the world.

Styles of Formal Order:

1. Idealization –

2. Intellectual Order –

3. Biomorphic Order –

4. Aesthetic Order –

5. The Style of Emotion –

 Romanticism is one subcategory of this style.

The Style of Fantasy –

Fantasy can be based on a lot of different things:

 Utopian ideals.
 Myth.
 Dreams and Hallucinations.
 Scientific Fantasy.

6. The Style of Objective Accuracy

This is Art that attempts to accurately represent what we see in the world
around us.

1. Realism

2. Photorealism

3. Stylization