03 — ARTWORK
Summer Night's Dream (The Voice)
- MEDIUM
- Oil on canvas,88 x 108 cm
- TYPE
- Mythological
PALETTE
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- FILE
- 1500 × 1212 px · JPEG
COMMENTARY
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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 Friezea horizontal band of architectural decoration; in a classical entablature, the horizontal member band between the architrave and the cornice. 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 initialthe first letter of the text in medieval manuscripts and early printed books, made to stand out emphatically by its colour, size, and ornamentation. 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.
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author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {Summer Night's Dream (The Voice) by MUNCH, Edvard},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-13},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/munch-edvard-r3b2414862e8c86/summer-nights-dream-the-voice-r439fb5d2797043},
urldate = {2026-09-13},
langid = {english}
}ACCESSED 2026-09-13. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
