Five Top Art Styles

Art comes in countless forms—but some styles have shaped everything we see today.

In this video, I break down the top five styles in art that every artist should understand. From classic approaches to more expressive movements, each style carries its own mindset, techniques, and impact.

Whether you’re trying to find your own style or just want to understand what influences your work, this will give you a fresh perspective on how art evolves—and where you fit into it.

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 Artist: David Bornancin

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Style: Abstracts and Landscapes

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Right now, we're going to talk about the top art formats or the top art categories that people consider is the top. Now, you could create the lists all day long, but I've done enough research and it's an interesting list, the top five. And one of the top ones on the list is abstract art, which I actually create. So I do a lot of work with abstract art. It focuses on expressive freedom. And I I really agree with that answer and what people are feeling because it gives you the freedom to uh create unlimited boundaries of design work. It doesn't hold you to any lines, cuts, or mixes, or color balancing, or color, you know, color constraints or anything of that nature. It allows you to be free with the way you want to interpret life and the way you want to bring that canvas to life. So I think that's a pretty good answer. Uh the next one is modern art, and that's impressionism, surrealism, pop art, and other uh close styles. And so I think uh, you know, modern art, uh, anybody that's doing uh that that kind of modern art, uh, that's that's a pretty good uh balance in that alone with all those uh uh subtitles and pop art, incredible. Contemporary art. Um this one focuses on culture, society, and political themes and and other things too. But I I gotta tell you, contemporary art is probably where I live. Meaning, if I was going to buy something, boy, do I love the 1800s and the early 1900s paintings. And you know, that that era, that that style, that beauty, that grace, that you know, unrealness of you know, ballrooms and people dancing and and the capture of you know the person who's doing the oil paintings and captures it all, it's just amazing. So I I have to agree with that one. That's a top one. One that surprised me is people categorize digital art as one of the top themes for art. And I disagree with that category because although digital art can be very creative, although digital art can create things that you can't even possibly create, although AI engines are all over the place and they have the ability to create some interesting um art deco type styles and artwork. I don't consider that to be really pure art. And what I mean by that is if you're an incredible drawer, you can see the lines throughout the whole drawing, and you can see the way they're drawing it and the boldness of it. If you're an illustrator, you can see how they're structuring their logic and creating these wonderful designs as an illustrator. And if you're oil, water, or acrylic painter, it's the brilliance of what is being designed and created, and how you work with colors and how you make up work and and all the different techniques you're using. Digital is uh uh embracing yourself around a high-powered AI computer and letting the AI engine do most of the work. You're just telling it what to do and what to design. So, digital art to me is is I wouldn't put that in the top five. And then uh some people felt like I talked about before, Art Deco, you know, uh uh style and architecture and design and visual arts and boldness and geometry and uh geometric, and and so I would say that is in the top five. So I think there's a lot of great categories up on the top end, but it's interesting to see that even on most people are feeling that abstract art has gives you the ability to be free on the way you design things. So I think that's a good thing.