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Young People and Ducks, 1905-08
Oil on canvas
393/8X411/3 inches (100x105 cm)
Munch Museum, Oslo

This picture was painted at Bad Elgersburg, a small spa in Thuringia, one of several Munch visited in efforts to relieve his nerves and alcoholism. However, he worked on it in later years, adding the solitary figure sketched on the right.

Here he revives a theme treated many years before in Evening on Karl Johan Street and The Storm :
the crowd versus the individual. But now he deals with it in a different spirit, not as a matter of internal anguish dramatized by stormy nights and haunted houses but as an objective, even humorous, phenomenon. It is simply a bright winter day in a village square, with brilliant primary colors against the white of snow and clouds.

Three separate groups are shown: the girls clustered around the tree in the background, the knot of boys, and the ducks in the extreme foreground. The boldest girl in red makes to leave her sisters and join the boys. The boldest boy, red lipped and aggressive in mien, evidently has a different appetite; he heads for the ducks. Thus the groups are connected by intrepid individuals. But apart from them the groups show signs of splitting up: two of the girls are leaving to walk up the road; the green-faced boy on the left, perhaps a scholar, begins to walk away clumsily, apparently about to trip over a plank; two of the ducks turn their backs on their comrades and move in the opposite direction, the one sedately, the other in fear or anger. The figure on the right goes about his business in isolation.

One might speculate as to whether it was Munch's intention to turn a microcosm of village life into an allegory of social disintegration.

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