This painting of expressive surrealism hardly ever can be considered as illustration to the Charles Baudelaire’s poetic collection of the same name. It is more possible to find a relation with The Revelation of St. John the Divine – the Relevation. Each new man’s sin manures soil from which the flowers of evil grow. And the world turns out to be under the rule of demonic powers – they are symbolized by the “flowers” in upper part of the painting. That inevitably leads to catastrophes, which were apocalypse – in the lower part it is shown the destiny of those who broke away from the Source of life – it is anthropomorphous image of the nemesis. The image of river painted on the picture can be interpreted as the apocalypses’ “clean river with water of life, flowing from the throne of God and Lamb”, or the Church. But these waters are already fogged by “scraps” of human’s depravity. Anxious colors even more emphasize already strong emotional transference of a painting. If to say about mood, and about discreteness of composition, it is possible to mark the influence of another Medieval surrealist – Pieter Bruegel de Oude and his famous painting “The Triumph of Death”
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