>>121531 The symbolism goes much deeper than a mere pouch of shekels, my young friend. The original painting by Bruegel that this is based on depicts a "misanthrope" - a hermit, walking away from a disfigured creature (which I always assumed represented the world), and the inscription below declares (in Flemish): "Because the world is perfidious, I am going into mourning". There are a few interpretations of this work, but personally I view it as a metaphor for the ugly monstrous world robbing a man, who gave up on it and decided to simply walk away, of everything. We can thus draw parallels between the original painting and this modern re-interpretation: the eternal tranny robbing a man, who rejects it, of his last bit of sanity.
Помню нечто подобное нас заставляли делать на уроках искусства, когла мы изучали картины художников Северного Ренессанса. Больше всего мне нравилась стилистика германских художников, она мне казалось более приземлённой, нежели работы итальянских творцов. Хотя Караваджо тоже неплох был