Ralph "Skid" Johnson
Search results
The Dance of Life or Life's Dance is an 1899–1900 expressionist painting by Edvard Munch, now in the National Museum of Art in Norway. The arch of life spans from white young virgin in white over the pair with red wife to an old widow in black.
The Dance of Life, 1899 by Edvard Munch Museum Photo. Nearer to us a chosen male partner dances decorously with the girl; this is the stage of courtship. Still closer to the foreground courtship has progressed to lust, in the form of a leering man ready to ravish his partner.
When Munch painted Dance of Life in 1899 he was inspired by symbolism and used colours symbolically to express different feelings: red for love, passion and pain; white for youth, innocence and...
The Dance of Life, which Munch pained in 1900, takes place on a bright summer night along the shore of Aasgaardstrand in Oslo Fjord. Lit by a full moon, couples engage in an energetic dance. The phallic reflection of the moonlight in the water gives the scene a mood of sexuality.
Title: The Dance of Life. Artist: Edvard Munch (Norwegian, Løten 1863–1944 Ekely) Date: 1925. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 56 5/16 × 81 7/8 in. (143 × 208 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: Munch Museum, Oslo. Learn more about this artwork. Modern and Contemporary Art at The Met.
From people's emotional life to agriculture and landscape Henrik Ibsen's plays about humanity's existential challenges inspired Munch. Themes such as death, love, sexuality, jealousy and anxiety were central to his early images.
Edvard Munch’s “The Dance of Life,” created between 1899 and 1900, is a seminal work of Expressionism, rendered in oil on canvas. This genre painting, measuring 126 by 190.5 centimeters, is displayed at the National Gallery in Oslo, Norway, which is also the country where it was created.
