Image of the Week 018

This work, by Russian Symbolist painter Mikhail Vrubel, depicts the diabolical Mephistopheles in red and Faust behind him. Mephistopheles represents the will to overcome the psychological, intellectual, and physical limitations that constrain all mortal creatures.

Mikhail Vrubel, The Flight of Faust and Mephistopheles, 1886-1896.