"The Day," 340×160 cm, 1900, held in the Bern Museum of Fine Arts. "The Day" is Hodler's most representative work. In this dramatic composition and decorative imagery (resembling a fresco), it presents five young nude women sitting in an unreal, imagined landscape. Centered on a frontal figure with outstretched arms, two figures sit on each side, forming a geometrically symmetrical semicircle. Under Hodler's favored theory of musical parallel structures, each uses different gesture languages to symbolize time and space. Within the rigorous and powerful realistic forms, rhythmic and symmetrical body language, brilliant colors, and perfect geometric symmetry, the imagery extraordinarily manifests the spacetime of the day.