Flatstyle refers to several 20th-century American Indian painting styles with limited or no shading or perspective but emphasized shape and contour. These include:
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Bacone school
The Bacone school or Bacone style of painting, drawing, and printmaking is a Native American intertribal "Flatstyle" art movement, primarily from the mid-20th century in Eastern Oklahoma and named for Bacone College. This art movement bridges hist ...
, popularized by Bacone College, Muskogee, Oklahoma from the 1930s through 1980s
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San Ildefonso School
The San Ildefonso school, also known as San Ildefonso Self-Taught Group, was an art movement from 1900–1935 featuring Native American artists primarily from the San Ildefonso Pueblo in New Mexico. The group consisted of Tonita Peña, Julian Mart ...
, active in New Mexico from the 1910s through 1940s
* Southern Plains style, popularized by the
Kiowa Six, beginning in the late 1920s.
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Studio style, taught by Dorothy Dunn and Géronima Montoya Cruz at the Santa Fe Indian School, New Mexico, from the 1930s to early 1960s.
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