# Summer Night's Dream \(The Voice\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MUNCH, Edvard]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas,88 x 108 cm ## Commentary Munch was strongly influenced by the work of Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, in particular their use of colour and form to evocative, expressive ends. In the late 1880s, Munch conceived an epic series of paintings entitled "The Frieze of Life," which dealt poetically and symbolically with life, love, and death. Many of his most memorable images were part of this ultimately unfinished project. "Summer Night's Dream," the first work in the cycle of Love, portrays the initial glimmer of adolescent sexual awakening. Bathed in an eerie light, the painting is probably set in the Borre Forest, a traditional place of courtship during Norway's long midsummer nights. ## Related artworks - [Anxiety]() - [Ashes]() - [Death in the Sickroom]() - [Evening, Melancholy]() - [Evening on Karl Johan Street]() - [Jealousy \(from The Green Room\)]() - [Kiss by the Window]() - [Madonna]() - [Madonna]() - [Portrait of Hans Jæger]() - [Self-Portrait with Moustache and Starched Collar]() - [Spring]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()