Illustration Styles
イラストレーション様式
Dictionary entry
- Push Pin Style 1954–1980s / Style
Glaser and Chwast's studio style — the counterpoint to Swiss rationalism — an illustration-led eclecticism of historical styles, comics and popular prints whose fat contours and ornamental color repainted 1960s–70s magazines and records.
- Mid-century Picture Book 1940s–1960s / Style
The postwar golden age of the picture book: flat limited color unafraid of misregistration, simplified figures and playful unity of type and image bringing modernist form into children's daily lives.
- Airbrush Illustration 1970s–1980s / Technique
The golden age of commercial illustration in seamless compressed-air gradients: chrome reflections, wet gloss and idealized skin — the pre-digital byword for the perfect surface.
- Skate Graphics 1980s– / Style
Graphics evolved for the deck's underside — a tall canvas destined to be ground away. Phillips's Screaming Hand typifies the bold outlines and horror-laced exaggeration that built street heraldry.
- Lowbrow (Pop Surrealism) 1979– / Style
Painting from outside the museum, raised on hot rods, comics, tattoos and B movies — pop memory rendered in precise oil technique, institutionalized as Pop Surrealism around Juxtapoz magazine.
- American Comic Book Style 1938– / Style
The grammar of exaggeration born from four-color printing and Ben-Day dots: bold outlines, primary-color costumes, speed lines and bursting onomatopoeia printing American myth on cheap newsprint.
- Ligne Claire 1929– / Style
The uniform-outline style Hergé established in Tintin: no cast shadows, every element drawn with the same weight of line — a democratic picture plane that made clarity itself an aesthetic.