Marta Dahlig – The Seven Sins
Saturday, April 21st, 2007.
Beautiful digital artwork by Marta Dahlig, posted to CGSociety, symbolizing the seven sins. -Quang-
Images copyright @ Marta Dahlig. Check also the glasses interpretation by Dave Nitsche. @ haha.nu.
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May 1st, 2007 07:29
These are some of the most beautiful artwork I have seen! I would love to have any of their dresses…
May 1st, 2007 11:53
Absolutely gorgeous!
May 2nd, 2007 02:46
Wow! Beautiful stuff! I haven’t seen a lot of modern interpretations of these kinds of tableaus…nice!
May 3rd, 2007 11:39
Absolutely wonderful. Thanks for sharing this elegant interpretation.
May 3rd, 2007 16:19
Man, Lust is so hot. Also, great artwork
May 3rd, 2007 19:20
more of her (other) art can be found at:
http://blackeri.deviantart.com/
I really like Wrath btw
May 3rd, 2007 19:49
Quality pictures.
I had to laugh at gluttony because she looks like there’s no way in hell she’s sharing those grapes!
Btw, you got wrath’s number?
May 4th, 2007 00:49
These are great. I hope the artist can later include one of Ususry, since #8 was considered the root cause of the lesser 7 right up until the end of the 19th century. I would love to see the conception for it, seeing as how the others are portrayed here.
Posters?
May 4th, 2007 00:57
ok and what’s the point ?
May 4th, 2007 02:05
gorgeous digital quality
May 4th, 2007 06:45
Shame on you North American!
You don´t have nothing but bad taste!
¡Pobre de nosotros!
May 4th, 2007 07:09
Am I the only one who doesn’t get this? These are fantastic fantasy pictures of beautiful women in highly unusual evening gowns. Only a few have something to do with their subjects; sloth doesn’t make any sense at all, and as far as I’m concerned any one of them could be lust — although only from a male point of view. Okay, the gluttony image makes sense, and so does vanity, to a degree, but if these were real people I’d guess they all owned hand mirrors somewhere. The one for sloth doesn’t make any sense at all. In the one for avarice, it looks like the woman is rich, but so do most of the others. Envy? It’s green: this goes back to a colloquialism, “green with envy,” but what does it really have to do with envy? There’s nothing in the image to particularly envy that’s not in all the other pictures unless you’re a snake fancier.
So what’s the deal?
May 4th, 2007 21:21
@ #12, Zafner, you need to look at the expressions in the face. Avarice just looks like she’s snooty – a rich kid who’s used to getting everything she wants. Sloth looks carefree and thus could be construed as lazy. Envy has it in the eyes – if you’ve seen someone like that you’ll know what I mean.
So yes, some could be mistaken for others but that’s not the point. Solo, they do tend to portray imho what they’ve set out to.
May 6th, 2007 19:51
Wow! I love it. I like as you chose colors for each sin – that is the way, the tone i see these sins in. Good job. And very creative to my mind.
May 7th, 2007 00:05
I agree that the drawing/painting/technical quality of these is great, but the conceptual content quite lacking. There are many cliches such as envy being green or having gluttony a slightly oversized woman (and this is only in relation to our newly developed ideal of a super skinny female being beautiful; that is to say, the glutton pictured is gluttonous how?) I have to agree with Zafner. . . . very beautifully done though.
May 7th, 2007 12:29
I tend to agree with Zafner. While the pictures are beautiful, they’re not really good embodiments of the sins.
Another issue I have is the fact that they’re all women. They represent the sins as well as being sex objects. They all have the porn-star gaze and the vixen body language.
I’m sick of women being the gender of choice for overly sexualized “sin pictorals”. It would have been more interesting had the artist used men.
May 10th, 2007 00:45
Ok, so the images are beautiful and really well done. I do agree they are definitely not the embodiment of the seven sins though. I can tell you had a reason and logic behind each image however a sleeping beauty might have made a better sloth, and piles of coins or a gold throne would have made Avarice better.
But, nice images some are really hot…
May 12th, 2007 22:10
wrath is such a beautiful picture it must have taken a lot of time.also the others are sexy beautiful,Ect
May 12th, 2007 23:20
7 deadly sins! 7 beautiful images!!
May 14th, 2007 16:03
Fantastic! Never could remember avarice.
May 22nd, 2007 08:12
Well, you can’t please everyone all of the time.
The images are beautiful, but how well they communicate will depend on the viewer. Wrath and Sloth don’t speak to me at all because I see those vices as being something darker and uglier than what is portrayed. But I agree that she nailed it with some of those expressions – avarice, envy, vanity. Especially envy. If you’re female, you know that look, I’ve seen it a thousand times.
I don’t like the cliches — the grapes and the green envy — but hey, they’re still pretty.
May 30th, 2007 10:22
i love the depiction of wrath and vanity
they look so realistic.
May 30th, 2007 10:25
i love how they all look so realistic,
great work
June 6th, 2007 07:06
i gotta say that VANITY kinda crushed me out
June 14th, 2007 03:43
All that I can say about that – middle.
First – I’m not perfect with my English (I’m Russian). Because I didn’t know those words – Vanity, Gluttony etc. – I needed to take my English dictionary to get it. Without the dictionary I couldn’t understand the meanings just by the artwork.
So, it is just good photoshoped photos of pretty girls (or repainted photos). It’s not about Seven Sins. Sorry. And I see here only five.
August 6th, 2007 03:28
I like Vanity best. Great series! Awsome work!
August 11th, 2007 22:07
I automatically fell in LOVE w/ these AWESOME depictions of our 7 deadly sins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And,I feel Marta has done a FABULOUS job of portraying them! Your work inspires me 2 greater heights,we ALL suffer from these “sins”
@ times.The looks on these beautiful ladies faces say it ALL.WHAT A WONDERFUL AND FUN TWIST SHE HAS PLACED ON THESE”SINS”.I was NEVER interested in the 7 sins,UNTIL I saw 1 pic.(Envy) on Myspace,then I said 2 myself,MAN,I GOTTA HAVE THEM ALL!!! THANKS 4 SHARING UR TALENT AND BEAUTIFUL WORK W/ US!A FAN FOR LIFE
September 21st, 2007 16:36
Wow….It’s awesome!
I like Vanity best.
November 21st, 2007 18:53
While these depictions of the Seven Deadly Sins are beautiful and represent the artist’s perspective, there are some inaccuracies I’d like to mention:
1. Gluttony’s color is actually orange, not pink.
2. It may look reasonable but Lust’s color is actually blue, darker than the one used in Sloth, and not that reddish pink.
3. The correct order and naming of the Seven Deadly Sins is as follows (Latin in parentheses): Lust (luxuria), Gluttony (gula), Greed (avaritia), Sloth (acedia), Wrath (ira), Envy (invidia), Pride (superbia).
December 14th, 2007 07:28
There are two things I must mention:
One- fabulous artwork.
Two- I understand that art is perception work, and I love the way you interpreted these sinfully delightful vixen.
March 11th, 2008 00:53
I agree that the images are very beautiful and skillfully done, but I am so tired of Gluttony being portrayed in the food sense. Gluttony doesn’t just refer to food, it refers to taking more than is needed of anything.
March 28th, 2008 11:53
Wow, they are amazing!
They are really portrayed well!
My fav is Envy! I love the goat hornes and green! It portays envy really well!
I wish I had that sort of talent!
Thanks for sharing it with us!
May 1st, 2008 08:32
Me conse¡idero una admiradora mas de marta
May 20th, 2008 08:08
These were ripped off in an issue of a second life magazine called Glam owned by Minnu Palen who did a photo shoot of the seven deadly sins for different skin designers.
She didn’t use your pictures exactly but she stole your idea. Just thought you would want to know.
August 28th, 2008 10:12
just saying I love the pictures and details but to be honest gluttony does not neccassarily mean just in stuffing your face. gluttony means to pretty much have an addiction or craving for something… a must have feeling. like nicotine, food, drugs, etc…