[disregard the anonymous version of this post--I forgot that I had logged out of livejournal]

I always understood Munch to be Expressionism, with "The Scream" being the epitome of it...Expressionism is more about using paint to capture emotions, whereas Impressionism is more about capturing the immediacy of the moment...obviously that is a very basic assessment, but there it is...

I totally had a poster of "The Scream" in my dorm room...