Andrei Kovalev's
Midjounrey Styles Library
A subjective list of artists and techniques that seem to affect the style of Midjourney generations.
Painters (96)
Albrecht Dürer
Alex Grey
Amy Sherald
André Derain
Andreas Achenbach
Anthony van Dyck
Anton Pieck
Audrey Kawasaki
Camille Pissarro
Christian Schad
Claude Monet
David Hockney
Edgar Degas
Édouard Manet
Édouard Vuillard
Edvard Munch
Edward Hopper
Edwin Austin Abbey
Egon Schiele
Erich Heckel
Ernest Hamlin Baker
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Etel Adnan
Fernand Khnopff
Francis Bacon
Francisco Goya
Frank Auerbach
Franz Marc
Georg Baselitz
George Grosz
Georges Braque
Gerhard Richter
Gertrude Abercrombie
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Grant Wood
Gustav Klimt
HR Giger
Henri Matisse
Henri Rousseau
Hieronymus Bosch
Howard Hodgkin
Jackson Pollock
Jasper Johns
Jeanne Mammen
Jenny Saville
Kazimir Malevich
Kehinde Wiley
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Andrea Mantegna
Amedeo Modigliani
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Adrian Ghenie
Léon Bakst
Lucian Freud
Lyubov Popova
Marc Chagall
Mark Rothko
Max Ernst
Max Lieberman
Norman Ackroyd
Norman Rockwell
Oskar Kokoschka
Otto Dix
Pablo Picasso
Paul Cézanne
Paul Gauguin
Paul Klee
Paula Modersohn-Becker
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Piet Mondrian
Raoul Dufy
Rembrandt
René Magritte
Robert Delaunay
Robert Motherwell
Robert Rauschenberg
Rufino Tamayo
Salvador Dalí
Tamara Lempicka
Vincent van Gogh
Wangechi Mutu
Wassily Kandinsky
Willem de Kooning
William Hogarth
Mark Bradford
Anselm Kiefer
Cecily Brown
Peter Doig
Chris Ofili
Zdzislaw Beksinski
Jose Clemente Orozco
Diego Rivera
Frida Kahlo
Marlene Dumas
Piero della Francesca
Leonardo Da Vinci
Illustrators (90)
Graphic artists, Engravers, Cartoonists, Comic artists, Concept artists, Mangaku
Aaron McGruder
Akira Toriyama
Alan Lee
Alex Ross
Arthur Rackham
Ashley Wood
Beatrix Potter
Bob Eggleton
Boris Vallejo
Bruce Pennington
Butcher Billy
Charles Addams
Craig Mullins
Donato Giancola
E. H. Shepard
Edmund Dulac
Edward Gorey
Eiichiro Oda
Enki Bilal
Frank Frazetta
Frank Miller
Genndy Tartakovsky
Gerald Brom
Glen Keane
Hajime Isayama
Harry Clarke
Hergé
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
Ivan Bilibin
Jacques Tardi
Jakub Rozalski
Jasmine Becket-Griffith
Jean-Baptiste Monge
Jean Giraud / Moebius
Jeff Easley
Jeffrey Catherine Jones
Jerry Pinkney
John Bauer
John Howe
John Romita Jr.
Katsuhiro Otomo
Kay Nielsen
Kazuro Umezu
Kentaro Miura
Kevin Eastman
Larry Elmore
Luis Royo
Marc Simonetti
Mary Blair
Maurice Sendak
Michael Kaluta
Michael Whelan
Mike Mignola
Moto Hagio
N. C. Wyeth
Naoki Urasawa
Philippe Druillet
Ralph McQuarrie
Ralph Steadman
Richard Corben
Rob Liefield
Russ Nicholson
Shigeru Mizuki
Shotaro Ishinomori
Simon Stålenhag
Stephan Martinière
Steve Ditko
Syd Mead
Takehiko Inoue
Tim White
Todd McFarlane
Tony DiTerlizzi
Tyrus Wong
Victo Ngai
Walter Crane
Wayne Barlowe
Will Eisner
William Stout
Yusuke Murata
Aubrey Beardsley
Ernst Haeckel
Chris Bachalo
Tsutomu Nihei
Takato Yamamoto
Tony DeZuniga
Charles Burns
Dave McKean
Matthaus Merian the Elder
Hendrick Goltz
Yoji Shinkawa
Yoshitaka Amano
Photographers (79)
Albert Watson
Alec Soth
Alex Webb
Alfred Stieglitz
Anders Petersen
Andre Kertesz
Andreas Gursky
Angus McBean
Annie Leibovitz
Ansel Adams
Anton Corbijn
Ara Güler
Arnold Newman
August Sander
Berenice Abbott
Brassaï
Chema Madoz
Cindy Sherman
Claude Cahun
David LaChapelle
Diane Arbus
Dirk Braeckman
Don McCullin
Dorothea Lange
Edward S. Curtis
Erwin Olaf
Eugène Atget
Eugenio Recuenco
Filip Dujardin
Gregory Crewdson
Guy Bourdin
Helmut Newton
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Imogen Cunningham
Irving Penn
Jan Saudek
Jeff Wall
Jerry Uelsmann
Joel Meyerowitz
Joel-Peter Witkin
Josef Koudelka
Josef Sudek
Julia Margaret Cameron
Leonard Misonne
Lewis Hine
Man Ray
Marc Lagrange
Martha Rosler
Martin Parr
Martin Schoeller
Martine Franck
Mathew Brady
Miroslav Tichý
Nick Knight
Paolo Pellegrin
Paolo Roversi
Peter Lindbergh
Philippe Halsman
Platon
Richard Kern
Robert Capa
Roger Ballen
Sally Mann
Sandy Skoglund
Sarah Moon
Sebastião Salgado
Stephen Shore
Steve McCurry
Terry Richardson
Tim Flach
Tim Walker
Vanessa Winship
Weegee
William Egglestone
Zhang Jingna
Ernst Haas
Erza Stoller
Julius Shulman
Iwan Baan
Street Artists (18)
Hopare
Ernest Pignon-Ernest
Levalet
Ron English
Anthony Lister
Retna
Tristan Eaton
Barry McGee
ROA
Mr. Brainwash
C215
Tavar Zawacki
Eduardo Kobra
Vhils
Osgemeos
Invader
Shepard Fairey
Banksy
Designers (33)
Printmakers
Christopher Wool
Alan Fletcher
Jonathan Barnbrook
Alvin Lustig
Seymour Chwast
Erik Nitsche
Otl Aicher
Wolfgang Weingart
Aries Moross
Paul Rand
Herb Lubalin
Paula Scher
Peter Saville
Milton Glaser
Michael Bierut
Massimo Vignelli
Stefan Sagmeister
Saul Bass
Anthony Burrill
Alexander Rodchenko
Andy Warhol
Elizabeth Catlett
Ernst Barlach
Frank Stella
Hiroshige
Hokusai
Jaques Callot
Josef Albers
Kathe Kollwitz
Kunisada
Patrick Caulfield
Roy Lichtenstein
Swoon
Stanley William Hayter
Miscellaneous (11)
Collagists, Assamblage artists
Contemporary artists, Sculptors, Installation artists, Conceptualists, Performance artists
Barbara Kruger
Joseph CornellK
Kurt Schwitters
Raoul Hausmann
Sergei Parajanov
Damien Hirst
Olafur Eliasson
Richard MacDonald
Zhang Huan
Jeff Koons
Cerith Wyn Evans
Techniques (48)
Various image-making techniques
Albumen
Azulejo
Calligraphy
Calotype
Carving
Chemigram
Chiaroscuro
Collage
Collodion print
Cross-stitching
Cyanotype
Daguerreotype
Decoupage
Embossing
Embroidery
Engraving
Etching
Fayum portrait
Fresco
Graffiti
Gumoil print
Halftone
HDR
Infrared
Lithography
Luminogram
Marbling
Mezzotint
Mosaic
Needlepoint
Origami
Ornament
Patchwork
Photogram
Photogravure
Quilling
Scientific photograph
Screenprint
Sgraffito
Solargram
Solargraph
Tapestry
Teracotta
Thermograph
Tintype
Weaving
Woodblock
X-ray
Disclaimers
To get these results I fed Midjourney almost 600 names and techniques using the same prompts: by [artist name] --ar 9:16 or [technique name] --ar 9:16. Those results that showed distinct style went into this list.

This list is random. The categories it's separated into are subjective and imperfect.

The styles presented here might not be similar to the techniques of the actual artists. To be honest, I don't care. More importantly, these names and words alter Midjourney generations in a distinct and reproducible way. Which might give you the foundation upon which to build your own amazing prompts and get your own unique results.
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