Bonfire Celebrating Midsummer Night | Nikolai Astrup | 1926 17th Century this work distills myth into

this work distills myth into a psychological icon—eerie

rendered in deep

reflecting Spilliaert’s introspective Symbolist style and his fascination with solitude

is depicted with large

is that in this work of Vienna's saint is portrayed holding a sword instead of a lance and that his head is uncovered without helmet

Bonfire Celebrating Midsummer Night | Nikolai Astrup | 1926 17th Century this work distills myth intoMidsummer Night is an oil on paper painting by the Norwegian artist Nikolai Astrup. It shows the traditional bonfire for Saint John's Eve sometimes referred to as Midsummer Night in a valley at Jlster in Norway, the artist's hometown, to which he had returned in 1902. It was begun in 1912 and completed in 1926. It has been in the National Gallery of Norway since 1984. Nikolai Astrup (1880 1928) was a Norwegian painter. Astrup was a distinctive,