50 Art styles & artists to try in your DALLE-2 & Midjourney Prompts

Do you love flexing your creative muscles experimenting with Midjourney or DALLE-2 but find yourself drawing a blank on artistic styles whenever you start to create? As the world of AI continues to evolve, it is becoming increasingly important to understand how to create prompts that will enable conversational AI or generative AI to produce accurate responses. One key aspect of this is the use of descriptive words. Here is a list of 50 art styles to try in your next prompt:

Styles

  • Rococo

  • Romanticism

  • Realism

  • Impressionism

  • Post-Impressionism

  • Expressionism

  • Fauvism

  • Cubism

  • Futurism

  • Dadaism

  • Surrealism

  • Abstract Expressionism

  • Pop Art

  • Op Art

  • Minimalism

  • Conceptual Art

  • Photorealism

  • Neo-Expressionism

  • Neo-Pop Art

  • Hyperrealism

  • Graffiti Art

  • Street Art

  • Outsider Art

  • Feminist Art

  • Baroque

  • Environmental Art

  • Land Art

  • Body Art

  • Performance Art

  • New Media Art

  • Installations Art

  • Video Art

  • Conceptual Photography

  • Documentary Photography

  • Fine Art Photography

  • Street Photography

  • Portrait Photography

  • Landscape Photography

  • Still Life Photography

  • Graphic Design

  • Motion Graphics

  • Art Deco

  • Arts and Crafts

  • Bauhaus

  • Art Nouveau

  • Ukiyo-e

  • Haida Art

  • African Art

  • Indigenous Art.

  • Renaissance

Artists

In addition, here are 50 artists you may find worth trying the styles of! (Including links to see their work)

  1. Vincent Van Gogh - https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en

  2. Pablo Picasso - https://www.museopicassomalaga.org/en

  3. Henri Matisse - https://www.musee-matisse-nice.org/en/

  4. Jackson Pollock - https://www.jackson-pollock.org/

  5. Gustav Klimt - https://www.klimt.at/en

  6. Wassily Kandinsky - https://www.wassilykandinsky.net/

  7. Roy Lichtenstein - https://www.lichtensteinfoundation.org/

  8. Edvard Munch - https://www.munchmuseet.no/en/

  9. Claude Monet - https://www.fondation-monet.com/

  10. Andy Warhol - https://www.warholfoundation.org/

  11. Georgia O'Keeffe - https://www.okeeffemuseum.org/

  12. Frida Kahlo - https://www.museofridakahlo.org.mx/en/

  13. Keith Haring - https://www.haring.com/

  14. Yayoi Kusama - https://yayoikusama.com/

  15. Banksy - https://banksy.co.uk/

  16. Jean-Michel Basquiat - https://basquiat.com/

  17. Leonardo da Vinci - https://www.leonardodavinci.net/

  18. Rembrandt van Rijn - https://www.rembrandthuis.nl/en/

  19. Michelangelo Buonarroti - https://www.michelangelo.org/

  20. Auguste Rodin - https://www.musee-rodin.fr/en

  21. Marc Chagall - https://www.chagall.fr/en/

  22. Paul Cézanne - https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/

  23. Pierre-Auguste Renoir - https://www.renoir.net/

  24. Salvador Dalí - https://www.salvador-dali.org/en/

  25. Camille Pissarro - https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/

  26. Edgar Degas - https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/

  27. Édouard Manet - https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/

  28. Pierre Bonnard - https://www.musee-bonnard.fr/en/

  29. Paul Gauguin - https://www.paul-gauguin.net/

  30. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - https://www.musee-toulouse-lautrec.com/en

  31. Johannes Vermeer - https://www.essentialvermeer.com/

  32. Jan van Eyck - https://www.fine-arts-museum.be/en/the-museum/press/press-releases/exhibitions/jan-van-eyck

  33. Hans Holbein the Younger - https://www.holbeininsociety.org/

  34. Francisco Goya - https://www.museodelprado.es/en/

  35. Diego Velázquez - https://www.museodelprado.es/en/

  36. Sandro Botticelli - https://www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/the-birth-of-venus-by-sandro-botticelli

  37. Titian - https://www.museothyssen.org/en/collection/artists/titian

  38. El Greco - https://www.elgreco.net/

  39. Jan Vermeer - https://www.essentialvermeer.com/

  40. Gustave Courbet - https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/

  41. Johannes Vermeer - https://www.essentialvermeer.com/

  42. Édouard Vuillard - https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/

  43. Georges Seurat - https://www.georgesseurat.org/

  44. Edward Hopper - https://www.edwardhopper.net/

  45. Rene Magritte - https://www.magritte.be/en

  46. Joan Miró - https://www.fundaciomiro-bcn.org/en

  47. Wassily Kandinsky - https://www.wassilykandinsky.net/

  48. Piet Mondrian - https://www.pietmondrian.nl/

  49. Mark Rothko - https://www.rothkochapel.org/

  50. Salvador Dali - https://www.salvador-dali.org/en/


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