Art style wheel
Twenty-two art movements and styles from the Renaissance to pixel art. Spin, read the one-line summary below, and try the style on something you already know how to draw.
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The styles in one line each
- Renaissance: realistic anatomy and perspective, Italy in the 1400s–1500s (Leonardo, Raphael).
- Baroque: drama, movement and strong light against deep shadow, 1600s (Caravaggio, Rembrandt).
- Romanticism: emotion and the power of nature, stormy skies and wild landscapes (Turner, Friedrich).
- Realism: ordinary people and work painted plainly, mid-1800s (Courbet).
- Impressionism: quick visible brushstrokes catching light at one moment, France in the late 1800s (Monet, Renoir).
- Post-Impressionism: bolder color and stronger structure after Impressionism (Van Gogh, Cézanne).
- Pointillism: a picture made of small dots of pure color (Seurat).
- Fauvism: wild, unnatural color, a red tree or a green face (Matisse).
- Expressionism: shapes and colors bent to show feeling rather than appearance (Munch, Kirchner).
- Cubism: objects broken into flat geometric pieces, seen from several sides at once (Picasso, Braque).
- Dada: absurd, rule-breaking art born during World War I, often collage and found objects (Duchamp).
- Surrealism: dream scenes painted carefully, so the impossible looks real (Dalí, Magritte).
- Art Nouveau: flowing lines, plants and curling forms, around 1900 (Mucha).
- Art Deco: sleek geometry, sunbursts and zigzags of the 1920s and 1930s.
- Bauhaus: the German design school of 1919–1933: simple shapes, primary colors, function first.
- Abstract Expressionism: large abstract paintings of gesture or fields of color, New York after World War II (Pollock, Rothko).
- Pop art: images from ads, comics and packaging, 1950s–60s (Warhol, Lichtenstein).
- Op art: patterns that trick the eye into seeing movement (Bridget Riley, Vasarely).
- Minimalism: very few elements, flat color, simple forms.
- Ukiyo-e: Japanese woodblock prints with bold outlines and flat color (Hokusai, Hiroshige).
- Street art: murals, stencils and bold lettering made for public walls.
- Pixel art: images built on a visible grid of square pixels, born in early video games.
How to use it
- Choose one simple subject and keep it for every spin: a mug, your cat, a tree outside the window.
- Spin and look up two or three works in that style. Notice color, line and shape, not the subject.
- Draw your subject the way those artists might have. Twenty to forty minutes is enough.
- Spin again next session with Remove the winner after each spin on. After a few weeks you have a set of the same object in many styles, which makes a striking wall display.
Questions and answers
Is this good for an art class?
Yes. It suits middle school and up. Give each student or table a different style with the winner removed after each spin, then hold a short show-and-tell where the class guesses the style.
Do I need paint to try these?
No. Most styles can be tried with pencils, markers or colored paper. Pointillism works well with felt-tip dots, and Cubism with cut paper. Spin the art medium wheel if you want a material too.