Combined with practice, the relationship and difference between artistic style, artistic genre and artistic trend of thought are explained.

(1) Artistic style is a relatively stable overall artistic feature presented by the interaction between the artist's creative personality and the form and situation of artistic works. Style is a sign of the maturity of the artist's creative personality, and it is also the standard for a work to reach a higher artistic level. Style includes not only the artist's personal style, but also genre style, era style, national style and so on. Artistic style has the characteristics of inheritance and originality, stability and gradual change, diversity and identity.

(2) Art school refers to an art school composed of artists with similar ideological tendencies, aesthetic concepts, artistic tastes and creative styles. There are three schools of art: the first is consciously formed, with certain organizational forms and artistic ideas; The second type is formed unconsciously, but it shows genre characteristics because of the similarity of creative styles and types; The third is being classified as a specific genre by others.

(3) Artistic trend of thought refers to the trend of thought and creative tendency with great influence in the field of art under certain social conditions due to the influence of certain social and philosophical trends of thought.

(4) There is a close relationship among artistic style, artistic trend of thought and artistic genre, but there are obvious differences. Artistic genre is a group expression of creative subjects with similar or similar artistic styles. The artistic trend of thought often contains the artistic opinions of many schools in many art categories in a period of time.

Take modernism as an example, as a source of art, it rose in the early 20th century, declined in the 1950s, and has continued to this day. Futurism, Dadaism, Expressionism, Surrealism, Cubism, Abstraction, Late Symbolism, Imagism, Absurdism and other artistic schools have been formed, and various artistic styles have been formed. Some of these artistic schools can be divided into more elaborate artistic schools.