Serenity

“Serenity” can be called a psychological landscape as it explores silence's duality - sometimes it's comforting, and sometimes it's deafening. M. K. Čiurlionis used an object of nature to create an anthropomorphic creature lurking in the water with two fires for eyes – something that might just as well be an island or a dragon or a monster.
This reflects the influences of the symbolist art movement on Čiurlionis' early work. He valued the work of Arnold Böcklin, and a close connection is apparent between his “Serenity” and the latter's “Isle of the Dead” (1880).