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 to 1935 featuring Native American artists primarily from the San Ildefonso Pueblo in New Mexico. The group consisted of Tonita Peña, Julian Ma ...
, 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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