The Fall of Man and the Expulsion from the Garden of Eden by Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo is taken from his painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Many critics such as author Terence McKenna and historian Kenneth Clark believe that this painting reveals his own philosophy that "life must be a progression from the servitude of the body to the liberation of the soul." But, since this piece was commissioned by the Pope for his own worship spaces, this particular painting conforms to Catholic theology that states that before the fall of man, God had created a space of peace, happiness, prosperity, and eternal life - a utopia. Adam and Eve lived in this harmonous milieu without the fear of certain things human beings suffer in today's world like sorrow, illness, and death . Michelangelo's painting dramatically depicts what was lost and what this transition out of Eden means to our current world, and he does this by using binaries; most notibly how the painting points to the fall by the way Michelangelo structures it. He uses the technique of a dividing line of a tree and a snake to bifurcate the setting of Eden.On one side of the painting the naked pair seems to be enjoying their surroundings as they indulge in Eden's cultivation, with its pastoral presecence and its lush lanscape and vegetation. As Eve is layed out and relaxed in the greenery of paradise she looks beautiful, healthy, and confident and on the other side of Eden where she is caste out the land is barren and flat. She is seemingly aging, she's covering up her breasts, and she is frightened and ashamed as opposed to how she was in Eden. Adam seems to be just as tainted by the expulsion as he appears to be pushing away the angel, surrendering to the consequence of eating from the tree of knowledge. Critics argue that Michaelangelo demonstartes that this is what happens when we lose ourselves in the mystery and gain knowledge, we relinquish our innocence and harmony.