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M U N C H
The Dance of Life,
1899-1900 A distinction can be drawn between those of Munch's imaginative
works that are directly symbolic, like Jealousy or Fertility, and those
like the present picture that are illustrations of a metaphor. The latter
may be more difficult to interpret. Life is not in fact a dance and the
metaphor is too vague to give much indication of what is intended. The
picture, however, appears to be a more complex and personalized version
of Woman in Three Stages , with an innocent woman in white on the left,
a sensual woman dancing with the man, and an anguished woman in black
on the right. All three resemble Tulla Larsen; the girls dancing in the
background It is possible to construct a reasonable explanation
of the scene if we remember that at times Munch used the depth of the
picture space as a time scale, moving from the distant past in the far
background up to the present in the foreground adjacent to the picture
plane. Applying this principle here, the initial impulse for life's dance
comes from the sun with its phallic column of light crossing the sea.
In front of this, far away on the beach stands a solitary girl, waiting
for a sex partner. At about the same distance but now on the greensward
a group of men appear to contend for the girl's favors - a point where
jealousy arises. 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. His face is a gross caricature of the playwright Gunnar
Heiberg, who had introduced Munch to Tulla Larsen and of whom he was jealous,
believing Tulla had previously had an affair with him. The girl still
wears white but her hair has darkened and reddened. The couple in the
foreground represent the final stage, where the dance of life turns into
a dance of death. They glide through the motions like somnambulists, trapped
by their fate. Munch's feet are enveloped by the coils of Tulla's red
gown, while its predatory contour almost completely encases him. Yet there
is no eye contact, they remain spiritually remote from each other. Placed
in profile, unlike nearly all the other figures, they form the timeless
image of a pair for whom creative life, his artistic, hers biological,
has ended. Tulla on the left looks forward naively to connubial bliss,
for her gaze misses the distressing vision, but she on the right looks
straight at it, apprehending the fatal consequences of love. |
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