
The Dance of Life
1900 · National Gallery (Oslo), Oslo
A woman in white waits, a woman in red dances, a woman in black stands apart. Three ages of love on a midsummer shore.
★ 7.1

A woman in white waits, a woman in red dances, a woman in black stands apart. Three ages of love on a midsummer shore.

Cézanne cared less who the man was than whether the head would hold together as structure, and the slight asymmetries keep it alive.

One puff of steam drifts across a curving shoreline, the modern world putting a small mark on a landscape that had none.

Munch painted this while under treatment in a clinic, and the crucified figure hemmed in by leering faces is not hard to read.