Vanitas Still Life | Carstian Luyckx | 1650 Size:14"x11" The work was highly criticized

The work was highly criticized at the time and

René Magritte’s "Not to Be Reproduced" (1937) is a striking example of surrealist paradox and psychological unease

symbolizing the passing of its master

The defeated figure below represents evil being vanquished

Vanitas Still Life | Carstian Luyckx | 1650 Size:14"x11" The work was highly criticizedThe Vanitas pictures emerged beginning with the late years of the 15th century. These pictures have a symbolic meaning, as most old paintings in art history: they are a representation of Vanity and also Vainglory (unjustified boasting). It describes through the visual language the meaningless in the efforts of gathering valuable material objects, earthly goods and pursuits and the ephemerality of earthly pleasures: in the middle of the richly depicted