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On one hand, I've never seen a painting that caused as strong of an emotional impact as some of my favorite albums / songs.
On another hand, I've never heard a song that gave me a sense of absolute awe and transcendent appreciation as some of my favorite paintings did. Impressed sure, but not in total awe.
So I dunno. I feel like art is a lot more brainy and conceptual, while music is expressive. In my own experience, the more brainy music is, the more its effectiveness diminishes, and simple songs tend to have a stronger emotional charge. While with art, complexity strengthens the visceral effect. I suspect it's because visual art is fractal in its complexity, in that it's all the same fundamental problems of visual composition that need to be solved on every level of complexity, so with a very complex painting that is executed incredibly well, you get more "art" (or problem resolution) per image. While music is so structured, you can't really go ad infinitum "filling the gaps" without compromising its impact.
All in all, it seems that creating a visceral impact requires high level of mastery with visual art, while with music, it can be achieved with the simplest composition and some really good lyrics/singing. And the opposite is true, in that doing something conceptual and brainy and clever is easier with art (basically stepping down to the level of symbol drawing), and incredibly difficult with music (needs mastery of composition and well architected structure).
