Nietzsche described in great detail the opposing but complementary art styles that he believed is the reason for the continuous evolution of art. The two art styles he describes are Apollonian and Dionysian. Apollo is the Greek God of the sun, and he represents reason, order, moderation, control, analysis, research, and rule-oriented. Dionysus is the Greek God of the Earth and everything that is beyond rational analysis. Dionysus is represented by passion, spontaneity, imagination, excess, frenzy, intuition, and feeling. Apollonian art is embodied by form, beauty, and symmetry, such as expressed in Greek sculpture. Dionysian art is embodied by irrationality and exuberance that is expressed in music. Nietzsche believed that art is not the imitation
