#american
A cross-section of the catalog tagged american — not a category. Tags pull from multiple categories at once.
Distribution across categories
- Illustration 7
- Comic & Graphic 5
- Era Aesthetics 4
- Photography 4
- Print & Poster 3
- Painting 2
- Cinematic Looks 2
- 3D / CGI 1
Styles tagged #american
28 styles
1950s Mid-Century Modern
Mid-century modern is the visual language of postwar American optimism, roughly 1947 to 1965, born in California, Scandinavia, and Italy…
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1960s Psychedelic
Psychedelic poster art is the visual language of San Francisco between 1965 and 1969 — the Fillmore, the Avalon Ballroom, the Family Dog…
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1970s New Hollywood
The New Hollywood look is the photographic and cinematographic language of American films roughly 1967 to 1980 — Bonnie and Clyde, Easy R…
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1990s Grunge
Grunge as a visual style is mostly David Carson's design language for Beach Culture (1990–91) and Ray Gun magazine (1992–95), plus the al…
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Abstract Expressionism (Rothko)
Abstract Expressionism was the first internationally dominant American art movement, centered in New York from roughly 1945 to 1960. It s…
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American Realism (Hopper)
Edward Hopper is the canonical American Realist of the twentieth century, and his particular contribution is a vocabulary for painted lon…
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Coen Brothers Americana
Joel and Ethan Coen's cinematography across Fargo (1996), No Country for Old Men (2007), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), The Ballad of Buster…
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Eric Carle Collage
Eric Carle's method was specific and physical: he painted large sheets of tissue paper by hand with acrylics — splatters, brushwork, fing…
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Frank Miller Sin City
Frank Miller's Sin City (1991–present at Dark Horse) is the most influential black-and-white American comic of the post-1990 era. The vis…
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Golden Age Illustration
Golden Age illustration is the painted American narrative illustration that filled magazine covers, advertising, and book plates from rou…
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Gregory Crewdson Cinematic Still
Gregory Crewdson makes photographs that look like single frames from films that don't exist. Each image is shot on a soundstage or locati…
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Mary Blair Mid-Century
Mary Blair's concept art for Disney between 1940 and 1965 — Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, and the It's a Small World ride —…
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Maurice Sendak Crosshatch
Maurice Sendak's mature style — Where the Wild Things Are (1963), In the Night Kitchen (1970), Outside Over There (1981) — is built on de…
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Mid-Century Graphic Illustration
Mid-Century Graphic Illustration is the flat, witty, geometry-driven American commercial illustration of roughly 1948–1965 — the look of…
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Mike Mignola High-Contrast
Mike Mignola's work on Hellboy (1994–present) and B.P.R.D. defined a recognizable, severely simplified, high-contrast comic-art idiom — a…
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Milton Glaser Pop
Milton Glaser Pop is the warm, eclectic, idea-first American graphic illustration that came out of Push Pin Studios from 1954 onward — th…
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Modern Image / Indie Comic
"Image / indie comic" describes the visual mainstream of American creator-owned comics from roughly 1992 (Image Comics' founding) to the…
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New Yorker Editorial Ink
The New Yorker has run editorial illustration and cartoons in a coherent visual language for nearly a century. The style is not one artis…
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Pixar Stylized
"Pixar style" is shorthand for a coherent set of CG-character-animation conventions that Pixar Animation Studios has refined since Toy St…
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Saul Bass Title Card
Saul Bass (1920–1996) redefined what film title sequences could be — he made them part of the film, not a list of names to skip — and the…
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Saul Leiter Street Color
Saul Leiter shot color street photography in New York from the late 1940s through the 1970s while almost nobody else was — Walker Evans a…
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Screen-Printed Concert Poster
The American screen-printed concert poster — also called the gig poster — has a continuous lineage from the 1965 Fillmore Auditorium post…
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Silver Age Superhero
The Silver Age of American superhero comics runs from roughly 1956 (DC's revival of The Flash in Showcase #4) to about 1970. The visual g…
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Spike Lee Double Dolly
Spike Lee's visual signature includes the most distinctive single shot in modern American cinema: the "double dolly," in which the camera…
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Tintype / Wet Plate
The wet-plate collodion process was invented by Frederick Scott Archer in 1851 and was the dominant photographic process from roughly 185…
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Underground Comix (R. Crumb)
Underground comix (the "x" spelling is original to the movement, used to distinguish from mainstream Comics Code-approved comic books) em…
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Vivian Maier Mid-Century Street
Vivian Maier worked as a nanny in Chicago and New York from the 1950s through the 1990s and shot roughly 150,000 photographs that nobody…
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WPA Travel Poster
Between 1936 and 1943 the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project produced over 2,000 silkscreened posters to promote nationa…
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