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Fusion of Classic Paintings and Modern Day Cityscapes

Ukrainian artist Alexey Kondakov juxtaposes classical oil paintings in modern day scenes to compose magnificent collages.

I think you mean “memento mori”?

Well that means something like “remember you will die”. It shows people the inevitability of Death.

At first something similar was said by some man, to a triumphant, to just make him aware that he might peak today, but tomorrow he could be death. So you have to be aware of the fragility of humans, regardless of your (high or low) position. (it was never really stated by some writer but it was told so, though)

After that, the Christian religion used memento mori to show people they could die tomorrow, and when you died, you should make sure you go to heaven, so you should be without (big) sins. So it was just telling people should always just act the way they should (how god/Church told them), and act correctly, instead of the “Carpe diem” idea which told people to just live for the day and do whatever you wanted to, not taking notice of what could be of you tomorrow.

And then later, there came Karl Marx. He used memento mori, to show people we might be a little different now, some might act like they’re a higher rank than others for example, but we all have to remember we will die sometime, and then, we will all be equal: dead. So his essence was to tell people that at the end we’re all the same.