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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. [1] The arch of life spans from white young virgin in white over the pair with red wife to an old widow in black. The painting was an important work in Munch's project The Frieze of Life.
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. His face is a gross caricature of the playwright Gunnar Heiberg, who ...
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The motif Dance of Life is central to the series Frieze of Life. The first time Munch painted the motif was in 1899-1900. Many years later, in 1925, he painted it once more when he took up again several of the motifs from the Frieze of Life. The technique was different, but the motifs and colours were the same In the middle a young couple are ...
Finished in 1899, the The Dance of Life by Edvard Munch is merely a representation of one of his internal conflicts. Hating the concept of marriage, Munch uses three female figures to describe 3 stages of life. The woman in white symbolizes purity, youth and virginity. In the opposite side, the woman dressed in black is a visual representation ...
The Dance of Life. Edvard Munch Norwegian. 1925 Not on view View more. Due to rights restrictions, this image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded
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About The Dance of Life. 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.
