Art

Title: The Voice (Summer Night) (also known as Summer Night's Dream)
Artist: Edvard Munch
Date: 1893
Medium: Oil on canvas

About the Artwork:

"The Voice (Summer Night)" is an evocative and atmospheric painting that belongs to Edvard Munch's seminal Frieze of Life series, which explores themes of love, anxiety, and mortality.
The scene is set on a warm summer night on the coast of Norway, a time and place that Munch often associated with powerful, formative emotional experiences.

The painting features a young woman standing in a forest clearing near the water, her figure pale and almost ghost-like in her simple white dress.
Her posture is stiff and her expression is both serene and slightly hypnotized, suggesting she is experiencing a moment of profound psychological tension.
The most striking element is the intense, vertical column of moonlight reflected on the water, which draws the eye and is often interpreted as a visual representation of the intense, perhaps overwhelming, "voice" or call of love and desire.

This work is a classic example of Munch's Symbolist approach, where the landscape is not merely a setting but a powerful mirror for the inner life and emotions of the figure.

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