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シカゴ・イマジスツ / mid-1960s–1980s / Style / Pop
Chicago painters who compressed comics, advertising, folk art, sideshows, and ornament into distorted bodies, hard contours, acidic color, and intensely personal hand-painted image worlds.
Distorted figures enclosed by hard black contour / Flat fluorescent and complementary color / Excessive mixtures of comics, signs, and ornamental frames / Symmetry or repetition sharpening the unease
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ZERO / 1957–1966 / Style / Postwar Abstract Painting
An international postwar network that restarted from a 'zero point,' replacing gestural painting with monochrome repetition, light, fire, air, and movement so physical phenomena and the viewer's motion become the work.
Repeated surfaces in white, silver, or black / Metal, mirrors, and relief changing under light / Real-time change through motors, air, or flame / Uniform repetitions of points, holes, discs, or grids
699
もの派 / late 1960s–1970s / Style / Modern and Contemporary Art Movements
A Japanese tendency that placed stone, wood, glass, steel, and cotton with minimal transformation to expose relations among things, site, support, fracture, and gravity rather than constructing a finished shape.
Natural and industrial matter placed in pairs or small groups / Visible cutting, support, pressure, and gravity / Floor and wall contact replacing a strong pedestal / Largely unprocessed stone, steel, wood, cotton, and glass
700
単色画（ダンセクファ） / 1970s– / Style / Postwar Abstract Painting
Korean painting in which narrow fields of white, earth, and grey are joined to repeated acts of pressing, pulling, soaking, tearing, and marking; duration and resistance of the support create density beyond the monochrome look.
Restricted white, raw, grey, and earth palette / Lines, points, folds, or pressure repeated across the field / Hemp, hanji, and paint showing absorption and relief / Quiet at distance and densely tactile up close
701
民衆美術（ミンジュン美術） / 1980s–early 1990s / Style / Printmaking and Social Movements
Art of South Korea's democratization era that joined labor, rural life, division, and collective action to woodcuts, banners, murals, hanging pictures, and comic-like public imagery made to circulate beyond the museum.
Heavy woodcut-like black line / Workers, farmers, and crowds presented frontally / Large public banners, murals, and hanging pictures / Sign-like red, blue, or yellow within folk and comic structures
702
プログレッシヴ・アーティスツ・グループ / 1947–1956 / Style / Modern and Contemporary Art Movements
A post-independence Bombay group that rejected both colonial academism and nationalist revival, individually recombining Cubism, Expressionism, Indian cities, and religious imagery through strong color fields and distorted figuration.
Divided and simplified figures, villages, and cities / High contrast among red, orange, blue, and black / Folk or sacred imagery beside European modernist devices / Heavy contour, flat field, and rough surface together
703
グループ・オブ・セヴン / 1920–1933 / Style / Landscape Painting
A Canadian group that simplified northern trees, exposed rock, lakes, and clouds into broad contours and non-natural color, enlarging fast outdoor oil sketches into national landscape statements.
Wind-bent trees and exposed rock / Blue-green, violet, and orange simplified into large shapes / High viewpoints layering lake, island, and distance / Small-study brushwork enlarged onto exhibition canvases
704
ウィーン・アクショニズム / 1960s–early 1970s / Style / Modern and Contemporary Art Movements
A postwar Austrian movement that expanded painterly gesture into ritualized actions with bodies, liquid, cloth, organic matter, photography, and film; repeated lines, splashes, binding, and documentation form its visual core.
Black or red liquid against a white body or cloth / Bodies divided by bandage, rope, and geometric line / Grainy frontal photographic or film documentation / Ritual repetition and extreme bodily action
705
フィギュラシオン・リーブル / 1980s / Style / Pop
A 1980s French return to figuration that released comics, rock, television, advertising, and graffiti into fast contours, saturated flat color, painted stories, walls, and posters.
Comic figures with heavy black contour / Flat saturated red, yellow, blue, and green / Words, signs, and panel-like divisions inside the image / Fast large marks associated with murals and posters
706
トランスアヴァングァルディア / late 1970s–1980s / Style / Modern and Contemporary Art Movements
A late-1970s Italian return to painting that crossed myth, classicism, personal signs, and forceful brushwork after Conceptual art, treating history as a subjective field that can be entered from several eras at once.
Large simplified mythic figures, animals, and masks / Thick marks colliding earth color with primaries / Classical, folk, and private symbols together / Isolated figures in shallow or destabilized space
707
スタッキズム / 1999– / Style / Modern and Contemporary Art Movements
A movement founded in London in 1999 that opposed institutional Conceptual art by advocating figurative painting, manifestos, and public protest, often through self-portraiture, hard contour, flat non-natural color, and narrative rooms or streets.
Heavy contours around figures and rooms / Flat, non-natural saturated color / Frontal autobiographical or narrative scenes / Hand-painted signs, manifestos, and public protest
708
80年代ワークアウト・スタイル / late 1970s–1980s / Style / Fashion History
The aerobics and home-fitness boom turned leotards, leggings, leg warmers, high-top shoes, fluorescent layers, and a visibly high waist into a repeatable 1980s workout language that crossed into streetwear and advertising.
High-cut leotard layered over tights or leggings / Fluorescent pink, teal, violet, and yellow / Leg warmers, headbands, and white high-top shoes / High waist, shiny stretch fabric, and V-shaped color blocking
709
2014 Tumblr Girl / 2012–2016 / Style / Internet Aesthetics
A 2010s internet style in which Tumblr's music, fashion, and image quotation converged on black skinny jeans, band shirts, chokers, dark lipstick, direct flash, desaturated filters, and a continuous feed edited into a persona.
Black skinny jeans, band shirts, plaid, and chokers / Direct-flash night photography with coarse grain / Heavy eyeliner, dark lipstick, and apparently unstyled long hair / Lowercase captions, lyric fragments, and sequences of monochrome images
710
アクビ / late 2010s–2020s / Style / Fashion History
A Korean online-retail and Gen Z style that keeps Y2K's slim, low-rise silhouette while muting it into grey, black, white, translucent layers, cropped tops, boleros, and asymmetric seams.
Muted grey, black, white, and dusty blue / Cropped top and low-rise elongated silhouette / Thin layering of mesh sleeve, camisole, and bolero / Asymmetric hems, cutouts, and small silver hardware
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アヴァン・ベーシック / late 2010s–early 2020s / Style / Furniture and Interiors
An Instagram-born postmodern interior aesthetic of wavy mirrors, blob furniture, checks, curves, flower-shaped objects, and strong pastel-primary color, often using one sculptural commodity to make a basic room appear instantly avant-garde.
Wavy mirrors and blob, flower, or squiggle furniture / Bright pink, green, blue, and orange complements / Checks, wavy lines, and heavy stripes / Sculptural objects isolated in white-room product photography
712
サイバーシジリズム / late 2010s– / Style / Tattoo Styles
A contemporary tattoo and graphic language combining mirrored tribal curves, sharp metal-logotype thorns, and digital sigils in fine black line, spreading unreadable symbols like wings, flame, or biomechanical bone along the body's axes.
Mirrored or symmetrical fine black sigils / Sharp thorns, flame, wings, and biomechanical curves / Placement along sternum, spine, hips, and shoulders / Mixture of metal logos, Y2K tribal, and Giger-like organic machinery
713
E-girl／E-boyスタイル / late 2010s–early 2020s / Style / Subculture Style
A TikTok-native style editing Emo, Scene, anime, skate, and K-pop into black layers, split-color hair, eye and cheek marks, close phone framing, and repeated performance—treated here as one gender-expansive system rather than a binary of e-girls and e-boys.
Graphic shirt over a black long sleeve / Split-color hair, heavy eyeliner, and small cheek marks / Chains, chokers, belts, stripes, and checks / Close vertical framing, colored LEDs, and short lip-sync performance
714
エモ・スタイル / mid-1990s–2000s / Style / Subculture Style
A subcultural fashion shaped by Emocore and later music scenes through black slim clothing, side-swept hair, band shirts, studs, intimate lyrics, and DIY self-photography, emphasizing vulnerability and inward expression more than Punk's outward destruction.
Black skinny jeans and band shirts / Side-swept fringe covering one eye and dark eyeliner / Studded belts, wristbands, and slim sneakers / Low-saturation images, handwritten lyrics, and red-white-black graphics
715
グロカワ / 2000s– / Style / Japanese Street Fashion
A Japanese grotesque-cute language that places wounds, eyes, bone, blood, or monsters inside kawaii outlines, pastels, and characters, letting cuteness and disturbance coexist on the same body or product surface.
Round characters beside eyes, bone, wounds, or other disturbing motifs / Pastel pink, blue, and white cut by dark red or black / Small anomalies repeated across plush, accessories, and clothing / A cute expression retained while body or background becomes strange
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ハイプビースト・スタイル / mid-2000s–2010s / Style / Street Style
A streetwear display and consumption style in which limited drops, collaborations, sneaker collecting, and online information speed organize recognizable logos, rare items, packaging, and full-body styling into visible proof of access.
Large box logos and instantly recognizable brand signs / Color matching centered on a limited sneaker / Layering multiple brands and collaborations / Frontal images emphasizing pristine product, box, and tag
717
モール・ゴス / late 1990s–mid-2000s / Style / Subculture Style
A late-1990s and 2000s mall-retail translation of Goth, Nu Metal, and skate signs into accessible youth outfits: wide black pants, chains, mesh, band shirts, heavy shoes, and mass-market accessories.
Wide black pants or cargo with a long chain / Band shirt over mesh or striped long sleeves / Heavy shoes, studs, and dark eye makeup / Black retail separates with one red, violet, or acid-green accent
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モールソフト / early 2010s– / Aesthetic / Internet Aesthetics
A Vaporwave offshoot that turns empty shopping malls, food courts, fountains, and public-address sound into reverberant music and low-resolution imagery where consumer memory, reassurance, and absence occupy the same long corridor.
Empty or sparsely occupied 1980s–1990s mall interiors / Fountains, artificial plants, food courts, and atria / VHS bleed, low resolution, and violet-teal cast / Images implying distant Muzak, announcements, and long reverb
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ノイエ・スロヴェニッシェ・クンスト / 1984– / Style / Modern and Contemporary Art Movements
A Slovenian collective in former Yugoslavia whose music, painting, theater, and state-like documents critically reenacted totalitarian, religious, national, and avant-garde signs through over-identification and severe black-red-gold monumentality.
Monumental symmetry in black, red, and gold / Eagles, crosses, gears, mountains, and flags as power emblems / Quotation of classical painting, Socialist Realism, and avant-garde imagery / Industrial music, uniform, manifesto, and state documents as one total work
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ニュー・レイヴ・スタイル / mid-2000s / Style / Subculture Style
A brief but recognizable mid-2000s meeting of indie rock and rave revival that joined fluorescent color, geometry, sportswear, DIY accessories, and direct-flash club photography around a slim rock silhouette.
Fluorescent pink, yellow, green, and blue together / Slim pants with oversized shirt or windbreaker / Geometric print, glow sticks, and plastic beads / Sweaty direct-flash snapshots against a dark club
IndexStyle is not a list of every term used around design. An independent entry must describe a visual language that can be recognised, reproduced and distinguished from its neighbours. Editorial standard