In the painting of Dance of Life, the painter Edvard Munch depicted a group of dancing people in the riverside grass. Three feminine images occupied the main position in this Expressionism painting and they respectively represented three different stages of woman’s career. On the left, the one dressed in white was a virgin with smile in her ruddy cheek, like the flowers in full bloom in her chest. The dress’s white symbolized the purity of the girl. And the right woman image made the contrast with the above girl. Her hands were blended and her face looked sad, which seemed to very lonely. Her dark dress was a symbol of her inner darkness and sadness. The two women images were facing the drunken dancing man and woman in the middle of the painting. symbolized the more wretched life. A full moon hanging in the sky (maybe the sun) reflected the long and wide shadow in the water, like a ghost’s eyes. This was a symbol of male. This motif in others Munch paintings more clearly showed its symbolic meaning.

In this group women trilogy in Dance of Life by Munch, the clear meaning was strengthened through the symbolic imagery and color. The theme, form and symbolic connotation were coordinated and united here, indicating that from the girl’s innocence, and then a woman’s maturity, and to the disillusioned road of life after the lost youth.