How does Beware of Luxury elucidate its abstract?
Beware of Luxury is a 1663 oil painting by the Dutch painter Jan Steen, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The painting depicts a disorderly household given over to licentious or improper behavior. In this context, the word luxury in the title implies excess or self-indulgence. The individuals, mostly up to no good, are assembled in the composition in a roughly triangular formation, fronted by the obviously loose-living young woman smiling flirtatiously at the viewer.Jan Steen's picture is a realistic yet funny distortion of a Dutch family home living in chaos, and it may serve as a warning to viewers of the foolishness and repercussions of such a lifestyle.  If you live in a chaotic environment, you should get a print of this picture and display it on your wall to remind yourself and your housemates of the severe repercussions of living in such chaos.Some of the themes of the painting are also to be found in Steen's humorous but moralizing painting, The Effects of Intemperance.
oil paint The Effects of Intemperance Kunsthistorisches Museum Jan Steen Vienna