The phrase "art modes" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to different styles, techniques, or forms of artistic expression within a particular medium or discipline.
Example: "The exhibition showcased various art modes, including painting, sculpture, and digital art."
Alternatives: "art forms" or "art styles".
"It was promoting Minimal art in overwhelming doses, and it had forced reductionist art modes on everybody with its aggressive ideological stance.
His output includes, but is hardly limited to, his early Ben-Day dot paintings of news images to scrappy cartoons, paintings on tawdry patterned fabric, and beautiful abstract creations which shunned other art modes.
There are analogues in nearly every art: modes and vocabularies that we accept in the work of the past but which seem, in new work, like period reënactment or, if the seams are exposed, like postmodern bricolage.
It's moving, really, to see virtually all the contemporary art modes that would become mainstream by the mid-nineteen-sixties being adumbrated in these tiny gallery spaces ten years earlier: Pop, Minimalism, performance, Conceptual art, poster art, political art, found art.
So why so many auto and art modes?
The Art modes are simply gimmicky filters that Olympus seems to love to add to all of their cameras and, unless you really like simulated tilt-shift photography, you can probably ignore it.
I also took one goofy shot in the camera's "Punk" art mode.
Rather, you press a different button and change art mode from the settings it brings up.
The Art mode allows you to add multiple filters to a scene including sepia, grainy film, and a tilt-shift effect.
Multiple on-screen menus and prompts ensure you know what's going on behind the scenes and the art mode menu is surprisingly easy to use.
That said, the menu system was a bit confusing at times: after changing the art mode (Olympus's name for filters) in the menu for example, you couldn't use the same method to change it.
