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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.
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 Dance of Life is a 1929 American pre-Code musical film. It is the first of three film adaptations of the popular 1927 Broadway play Burlesque, with the others being Swing High, Swing Low (1937) and When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948).
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.
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...
Dance of Life (1899-1900) is generally regarded as one of Munch’s major paintings, and most of the literature refer to it and briefly analyse it, not always accurately. There has been only one thorough examination (Müller-Westermann, Munch by Himself, Chapter 3).
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.
