Seven Deadly Sins


This was my first multiple figure composition as a mature artist. Simply, it depicts the Seven Deadly Sins in interaction with each other. From left to right: Anger, with a knife, threatens Greed, who is picking a dollar from his pocket. Sloth is asleep, Gluttony is eating, and Envy is jealously admiring Pride. Pride is admiring herself while Lust gropes her.

I’d been interested in the idea of a roomful of these sins as some depiction of an environment bereft of any morals. Just as much, though, I was up to the challenge of mastering the multiple figure composition, and this, as much as anything, fed my interest in the subject.

 

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