Imagery · Drawn & painted
Line illustration
Outline drawing, engraving, pen and ink.
A design choice in Stylogeny’s vocabulary, under imagery: what kind of pictures, if any?
- styles make it
- 171
- as a defining choice
- 55
- as a usual one
- 65
- now and then
- 51
- avoid it
- 3
Styles defined by it 55
For these styles it is one of the choices that make the style.
- Hebrew MicrographyA Jewish scribal art in which lines of minute Hebrew script, usually the Masoretic notes that guard the biblical text, are written so that the line itself draws: interlaced frames and star rosettes on full carpet pages, and animals, knights, fish and grotesques in the margins.
- Kalighat Pat & Battala Bazaar PrintsThe bazaar art of nineteenth-century Calcutta: watercolours sold to pilgrims by patua painters at the Kalighat temple, and the cheap woodcuts and metal engravings that Battala presses printed for chapbooks and almanacs.
- Persian Popular Narrative (Lithographs & Coffeehouse Painting)Iran's popular picture-stories in two media.
- Mexican Popular Graphics (Posada)Cheap broadsheets, chapbooks and gazettes sold on the streets of Porfirian Mexico City by the publisher Antonio Vanegas Arroyo and illustrated by Manuel Manilla and José Guadalupe Posada.
- Norwegian and Finnish National Romantic Graphics (Munthe & Karelianism)The flat, decorative branch of Norway's and Finland's national romanticism, which turned Viking carving, the sagas, the Kalevala and old peasant weaving into modern ornament.
- Glasgow StyleGlasgow's distinctive answer to Art Nouveau, formed around Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Margaret and Frances Macdonald and Herbert MacNair at the Glasgow School of Art.
- Taishō Roman & Lyrical IllustrationThe lyrical illustration (jojōga) of late-Meiji to early-Shōwa Japan, led by Takehisa Yumeji: willowy, large-eyed women in kimono drawn with an Art Nouveau contour, set among camellias and kimono patterns and lettered by hand.
- Estridentismo (Stridentist) GraphicsMexico's first avant-garde (1921-27), launched when Manuel Maples Arce pasted his manifesto Actual No. 1 on Mexico City walls.
- Black Panther Party GraphicsThe visual language of the Black Panther Party, created largely by its Minister of Culture, Emory Douglas, for the weekly newspaper The Black Panther.
- Ethiopian Revolutionary Poster (Derg Era)The poster and mural art of the Derg military government and its successor, Mengistu's People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (1974–1991), made mostly by teachers and students of the Addis Ababa School of Fine Arts.
- Pardhan Gond Painting (Jangarh Kalam)Painting on paper and canvas by Pardhan Gond artists of Patangarh and Bhopal, begun when Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal, recruited Jangarh Singh Shyam in 1981; the style was later named Jangarh Kalam after him.
- Bitterkomix (Afrikaans Underground Comics)The Afrikaans underground comics magazine founded in Stellenbosch in 1992 by Anton Kannemeyer (Joe Dog) and Conrad Botes (Konradski), with Mark Kannemeyer (Lorcan White).
- Oaxacan Protest Printmaking & Street Graphics (ASARO)The street graphics of Oaxaca City since the 2006 teachers' strike and APPO uprising, when ASARO, the stencil collective Lapiztola and later workshops such as Colectivo Subterráneos made the colonial centre's walls a newspaper.
Styles that often use it 65
A characteristic choice: usual in these styles, though not essential.
- Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic & Register CompositionThe visual system of pharaonic Egypt, in which writing is made of pictures and pictures are ruled like writing.
- Tibetan Woodblock Print Culture (Pecha & Prayer Flags)Tibetan Buddhist and Bön woodblock printing, from the first printed Kangyur (1410, cut in China) and the 15th-century presses of Gungthang to the great printing houses of Narthang, Derge and Lhasa.
- Zoomorphic & Figural Calligraphy (Islamic Calligrams)Pictorial writing in which the strokes of a devotional text form one figure: a lion of ʿAli built from the Nad-e ʿAli prayer, a galleon whose hull spells the names of the Seven Sleepers, a peacock, a Sufi cap.
- Đông Hồ & Hàng Trống Folk PrintsVietnam's two classic folk-print schools, bought for Tết. Đông Hồ families press each colour from its own carved block onto giấy điệp, dó paper brushed with ground scallop shell whose streaked, faintly sparkling surface serves as the white, and print the black line last.
- Northwest Coast Formline DesignThe two-dimensional design system of the northern Northwest Coast nations, painted, carved and woven onto boxes, house fronts, robes and hats, and printed as serigraphs since the 1960s.
- Thai Yantra (Yant) DiagramsThai protective diagrams in which Pali formulae, written in Khom, a sacred script derived from Khmer, are packed into squares, circles, triangles, spires and the outlines of Buddhas, monks and tigers, often framed by lines of script.
- German Book Art Movement (Buchkunstbewegung)The German reform of the book, from the magazine Pan (1895) to the private presses that ended around 1933.
- Senegalese Sufi Devotional Imagery (Souwère Glass Painting and Amadou Bamba Portraits)The devotional imagery of Senegal's Sufi brotherhoods, above all the Mourides: reverse paintings on glass (souwère), made in Senegal's cities since about 1900, and the murals, banners, prints and photocopies that multiply one 1913 photograph of Sheikh Amadou Bamba across Dakar and Touba.
- Bezalel SchoolThe house style of the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts, opened in Jerusalem by Boris Schatz in 1906 with E.
- Vorticism & BLAST TypographyLondon's short-lived rival to Futurism, launched by Wyndham Lewis with BLAST (dated 20 June 1914; War Number, July 1915).
- Brazilian Modernismo Graphics (Klaxon and the Semana de 22)The print side of São Paulo's Modernismo (1922-29), set in jobbing print shops.
- MavoTokyo's anarchist avant-garde, founded in July 1923 by Murayama Tomoyoshi, back from a year in Berlin, with four former Futurists, and its magazine MAVO (seven issues, July 1924 to August 1925).
- Bossa Nova Sleeve Modernism (César Villela and Elenco)The cover language of bossa nova, made in Rio by the self-taught designer César Villela, first at Odeon and then on the first sixteen LPs of Aloysio de Oliveira's label Elenco (from 1963), often around Francisco Pereira's photographs.
- Atelier Populaire (May '68 Screenprint Poster)The posters of the Atelier populaire, set up when students, teachers and artists occupied the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris on 14 May 1968, until police cleared the school on 27 June.
- Grapus (French Militant Graphic Collective)The posters and identities of Grapus, a Paris collective founded in 1970 by Communist Party members who had met in the 1968 poster workshops.
- Indonesian Woodcut Activism (Taring Padi)The protest graphics of Taring Padi, the collective founded by students and activists in Yogyakarta in 1998 as Suharto fell, and of the punk and activist woodcut scenes around it.
- Woman, Life, Freedom Protest Graphics (Iran and the Diaspora)Posters and digital graphics made in Iran and the diaspora after Mahsa (Jina) Amini died in morality-police custody in September 2022.
Styles that use it now and then 51
An occasional choice in these styles.
- Chinese Paper-Cut (Jianzhi)c. 500–present
- Ethiopian Ge'ez Manuscript & Haräg Illuminationc. 500–present
- Armenian Manuscript Illuminationc. 862–1800
- Song–Ming Woodblock Book Typography (Songti / Mincho)c. 960–present
- Kamon (Japanese Family Crests)c. 1100–present
- Persian Miniature (Ilkhanid, Timurid and Safavid Book Painting)c. 1300–1700
- Javanese Wayang Kulit (Tatah Sungging)1500–present
- Rinpa & Saga-bon1600–present
- Sápmi Graphic Identity (Duodji & Gákti Colour Code)1600–present
- Ten Bamboo Studio Colour Woodblock (Douban & Gonghua)1626–present
- Chaekgeori & Minhwa Screen Painting1776–present
- Edo-moji Commercial Lettering (Kanteiryū, Yose-moji, Sumō-ji)1779–present
- Bulaq (Amiriyya) Naskh Book Printing1822–1956
- Urdu Katib Lithography1837–present
- Spanish Bullfight Poster (Cartel Taurino)1879–present
- Cubist Pictorial Space1907–1925
- Art Deco1910–1939
- Arnhem Land Bark Painting & Rarrk1912–present
- Hungarian Revolutionary Poster1912–1919
- Dada1916–1924
- Wendingen & Amsterdam School Typography1918–1932
- ROSTA Windows1919–1922
- Italian Fascist Graphics (Romanità & Exhibition Photomontage)1921–1943
- Surrealist Graphics1924–1960
- Early Turkish Republican Graphic Design1925–1960
- Estado Novo Folk Modernism (SPN)1933–1949
- Hebrew Poster Lettering & Early Israeli State Design1934–1974
- WPA Silkscreen Posters1935–1943
- Onitsha Market Pamphlets1947–1980
- Hong Kong Neon & Beiwei Shop-Sign Lettering1950–present
- Polish Poster School1950–1990
- Taiwan Floral Cloth (Huabu)1950–present
- West German Conceptual Film & Culture Poster (Hillmann and Rambow)1953–1990
- Blue Note Jazz Sleeve Modernism1956–1967
- Phototype Expressive Typography (Lubalin & U&lc)1962–1985
- Baybayin Revival Graphics1963–present
- Hong Kong East–West Graphic Modernism1964–present
- Tropicália Graphic Design1964–1975
- Chicano Screenprint Poster1965–present
- Palestinian Resistance Poster1965–1993
- Hipgnosis Photographic Concept Sleeve1968–1983
- Lebanese Civil War Party Poster1975–1990
- Punk & DIY Zine1976–1986
- Black Metal Graphics1990–present
- Korean Commercial Calligraphy (Kaelligeurapi)1999–present
- Yuru-chara (Japanese Local Mascot Design)2000–present
- Contemporary Chinese Book Design ('Most Beautiful Books of China')2003–present
- Hauntology & Ghost Box Design2004–present
- Modern Calligraphy and Brush Lettering2005–present
- Risograph & Indie Print Culture2008–present
- Egyptian Revolutionary Street Art (Mohamed Mahmoud Murals)2011–2014
It often goes with
Choices that the styles making it make more often than the atlas as a whole.
- Pen, brush & inkin 104 of 171
- Paper & letterpress bitein 91 of 171
- Stylised figurationin 146 of 171
- Distortion & exaggerationin 79 of 171
- Carved linein 58 of 171
- Sequential narrativein 71 of 171
Styles that avoid it
Styles that deliberately leave it out.