Painting Styles

                                  


                                               Artists used many styles in their paintings and drawings.Style can refer to the distinctive visual elements, techniques and methods that typify an individual artist's work.It can also refer to the art movement or school that an artist is associated with. An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal,followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time, or, at least, with the heyday of the movement defined within usually a number of years.Here are some of the more common styles of art based on such movements or classifications.They are

1. Western Styles
2. Eastern Styles

      The Western Style of painting is of following types

•    Abstract
•    Abstract Figurative
•    Abstract Expressionism 
•    Art Brut
•    Art Deco
•    Baroque
•    Body painting
•    CoBrA
•    Color Field
•    Constractivism
•    Contemporary Art
•    Cubism 
•    Digital painting
•    Expressionism
•    Fauvism
•    Figuration Libre
•    Folk
•    Futurism
•    Graffiti
•    Hard-edge
•    Hyperrealism
•    Impressionism                                    
•    Lyrical Abstraction
•    Mannerism
•    Minimalism
•    Modernism
•    Naïve art
•    Neo-classicism
•    Op art
•    Orientalism
•    Orphism
•    Outsider
•    Painterly
•    Photorealism
•    Pinstriping
•    Pluralism
•    Pointillism
•    Pop art
•    Post-painterly Abstraction
•    Postmodernism
•    Precisionism
•    Primitive
•    Realism
•    Regionalism
•    Rococo
•    Romantic realism
•    Romanticism
•    Socialist realism
•    Street Art
•    Stuckism
•    Superflat
•    Surrealism
•    Tachism
•    Tonalism                                                                                                                                   
  

             The Eastern Styles of art classification is as follows

•    Chinese Art
•     Indian Art
•     Japanese Art
•     Korean Art
•     Islamic Art