Vincent Van Gogh And Edvard Munch Comparison

Vincent Van Gogh and Edvard Munch were artists who were extremely different from one another. Van Gogh’s genre of art was post impressionism, while Munch was influenced by impressionism. Later, Munch’s genre of art became a symbolist. These two artists were from different time periods and regions, however there were few similarities between them. Even though they have different styles, Van Gogh and Munch, both took identical paths while in the process of establishing themselves as artists. When comparing Van Gogh’s paintings, the Self-portrait as a Painter, The Yellow House, and The Bridge at Trinquetaille, to Munch’s paintings the Self-Portrait with a Palette, Red Virginia Creeper, and The Scream the themes were related to each other.
Vincent Van Gogh and Edvard Munch have different painting styles. Van Gogh had a painting style that was “characterized by boldly scored impasto, insistent brush strokes, and vibrant colours, often complementary” (Sorensen, 2004.) According to Sorenson, this is what made the brushstrokes bolder and due to the “use of bright colors his paintings were unique because of the way the colors were flowing in …show more content…
Colors were used to express their feelings between both artists. In Munch’s painting The Scream, there was a man on the bridge with his hands holding his face in terror. “Munch uses red to indicate horror, blood, and anguish” (Getlein, 2015.).The sky was red indicating horror, blood, and anguish. At the time, it was Munch who was walking on the bridge at sunset when out of no-where he had heard a scream that only he could hear. This painting was created a few years later after Van Gogh ended his life. Even though The Scream was an event that happened to Munch, it is really identical to The Bridge at Trinquetaille because they both have a person standing at the edge of the bridge with one or two hands by their face. When observing the paintings, they both included a