Unlikely given the work done in the style of expressionist surrealism can be considered as an illustration of the famous eponymous poetry collection by Charles Baudelaire. Rather, here you can find allusions to the Revelations of St. John the Divine - Apocalypse. With each new transgression man fertilizes the soil from which grows the evil and the world is in the power of demonic forces - they symbolize the "flowers" in the upper part of the picture. This leads inevitably to the disaster, which prophesied in Revelation - in the lower part shows the fate of fallen away from the fountain of life - the anthropomorphic image of God's wrath. Painted river can be read as an apocalyptic image of a clean river water of life originating from the throne of God and the Lamb ", that is the Church. But these waters already zamutnyayutsya "waste" of human depravity. Disturbing colors enhances an already strong emotional promise of work. As part of the mood, as well as fractional composition significantly influence Bosch and other medieval surrealist - Pieter Bruegel the Elder - his famous work "The Triumph of Death".
