style - An artist's characteristic manner of expression. Also, works of art by different artists may have certain features in common. Such works are said to have a group style.

Some examples of group styles are art nouveau, chinoiserie, cubism, De Stijl, empire, expressionism, fauvism, impressionism, luminism, naturalistism, rococo, romanticism, social realism, socialist realism, and surrealism.

• Picasso described himself as "a painter without style," explaining: "Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime."
  Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Spanish artist. (quoted in: prefatory text to exhibition catalog, Geneva, 1963).
  
  
• "In the final analysis, 'style' is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation."
  Susan Sontag (1933-2004), American essayist. Against Interpretation, "On Style" (1966).

Also see art history, art movement, chronology, culture, gemütlichkeit, isms and -ism, period, signature, thematic, and time.

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