Types of painting styles

I am going to talk about the painting aspect of fine art. There many different styles of painting, some include realism, expressionism, pop art and abstract. I will be going into on realism , expressionism and abstract painting styles. Expressionism is a type of artform where the artist tries to covey his feeling through the painting. Edvard Munch is one of the pioneers in expressionism painting. Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is best known for his image of anxiety, isolation, rejection and other negative emotions which reflected his tragic life. Edvard Munch's most famous painting is known as ''The Scream''(1893), which he painted serveral versions. The paintings show an agonized figure against a tumultuous orange sky. Realism in painting means to exclude artistic conventions, implausible, exotic and supernatural elements. In another words, to represent subject matter truthfully. In the 20th century different genres of realism emerged, one of which is known as hyperrealism. Hyperrealism is a term to describe the extreme form of realistic paintings. Gottfried Helnwein is well know for his hyper-realistic painting of human portraits. Although realism avoids the use of artistic conventions or supernatuural elements, it could also be expressive for portrait painting. Abstract painting, a total opposite style of panting from realism. Abstract paintings are painted without a recognisable subject. Similar to expressionism painting, there is abstract expressionism which is to paint something that are not visual such as sound, emotions and spiritual experience. Pablo Picasso is one of the founder of modern abstract art. His works are also expressive to a certain extent as well. A learning point is that all painting can be expressive, its not only expressionism is expressive. Ultimately it depends on your execution and art is not about your skill but your content.