동화 속의 숲

For much of the 1890s Munch had painted his own dread, the jealousy, the illness, the figure screaming on the bridge. Around 1901 he was spending his summers at Åsgårdstrand, a small bathing town on the Oslo fjord, and his subjects grew gentler. He made several pictures of children at the edge of a wood, this among them, and gave it the old Norwegian name for the enchanted forest of the fairy tales. Look closely at the surface: he thinned his paint so far that the bare canvas drank most of it in, leaving the trees dry and matt, almost like a faded wall painting.