Is there a word for a style of art that is a great example of its own style? And a word that can be applied to its artist? [duplicate]

I was mainly thinking about musical artists whose songs have style that is very recognizable as an "artists name" song or as a specific genres song. Not a super pressing question but just something that I am curious about.


Solution 1:

Perhaps you're looking for quintessential (adj).

Defined by Collins:

Quintessential means representing a perfect or typical example of something. [formal]
Everybody thinks of him as the quintessential New Yorker.

There is also archetypal:

Defined by Collins

Someone or something that is archetypal has all the most important characteristics of a particular kind of person or thing and is a perfect example of it.

Solution 2:

I think you may be looking for iconic.

iconic adj

  1. Symbolic, emblematic, or representative: a classroom scene that is iconic of what is wrong with the education system.
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For example,

Picasso is the iconic example of the Cubist movement in 20th century art.