“Big delirium”

The key to understanding this painting is the person with a bottle in his hands who seems to float right underneath the ceiling of this spacious room; Alcohol ! Unsurprisingly, every political emigrant milieu has an important percentage of alcohol abuse with all the consequences for the hopes of a new life in the host country. As a widespread reaction of an often forced exile, alcohol usually played an important part to ease the suffering of the loss of their former life, their friends, their culture or their language!

Milos himself, painting mostly at night until early in the morning, had a very active social life with many friends, often emigrants like him, and Bacchus played a major role as well during these events. My suggestion is that Milos painted that work remembering all his acquaintances and friends who had suffered from abusive alcohol consumption and, at the same time, as a warning to himself to “never to cross the Rubicon”.

– WN