Different Art Styles That Get Confused

People often confuse the Expressionists with the Impressionists. Provide a guideline that helps differentiate them. Use technique, artists, and paintings to help state your positions. As explained by the Economist, an art gallery decided to put the two different art forms side by side so as to show the clear difference between the two. Impressionism happened during the 19th century. The art was typified by brush strokes that were small and narrow. However, the strokes were clearly visible to the naked eye.

Light was shown in accurate forms and in the ways it changed depending on the sources of light, what those light sources were and where they were coming from. Artists that typified the Impressionist movement included Claude Monet, Frederick Bazille, Pierre-August Renoir and Alfred Sisley. Another big name from the Impressionist movement was Charles Gleyre. The backgrounds for Impressionst paintings were almost always on white or at least lighter backgrounds. Quite often, wet paint is applied on other paint that is not yet dried.

Further, colors are put onto the canvas side by side in an intentional way so as to show the contrast between the two colors rather than any sort of blending between the two. The most prominent periods of the Impressionist movement came during the 1870's and 1880's (Economist, 2015). By contrast, Expressionism was a modernist movement that came of age in the 20th century. The distoritions and use of color in rather odd ways, at least compared to reality and the way things appear in real life, were completely different.

Of course, perhaps the most famous piece of Expressionist art was that of Edvard Munch. He is the one that painted "The Scream." Other commonly cited Expressionist painters included El Greco, Matthias Grunewald, Matiros Saryan, TYoko Sallinen, Affandi, Henryk Gottleib and Axel Torneman, just to name a few. The work of Expressionist art is often seen as a yin to the yang of other work in that it is more focused on more negative and strident emotions like fear.

While other painting styles reeked of positivism, the Expressionist style was the opposite in many ways and forms (Economist, 2015). Why do you think the work of Edvard Munch has retained so much popularity? Discuss his works, the movement as a whole, and our current society. As noted before, "The Scream" was the work of Munch.

The reason for any focus on Munch and his work probably depends on the person that is speaking of him, but the author of this response feels that the angst and emotion shown in his work and the corresponding problems and challenges he had in his own life are probably one of the main reasons that people flock to him and his work. Just as Munch's work showed the darker sides of human emotion, Munch actually lived many of those things.

In fact, he lived during some of the most harsher times of the last century. Some people have actively degraded his work but that would be a mistake. Did the Industrial Revolution have an effect on art? Absolutely. Any major societal shift is going to have a major effect on art. The increase in the amount of factory automation, the changes to the economy, to the workforce and so forth absolutely.