Keith Maiden | Materialism

This is a continuation of the thought process that led to my previous piece 'Avarice Egocentric’. The painting is of a naked woman with outstretched arms, rose petals are painted on her head, both wrists and the right side of her torso. She has three sets of keys for luxury cars in her right hand (Bentley, Mercedes and Ferrari) and two chess pieces, a queen and a pawn, in her left hand. There is a slogan behind her saying “I want it all, I want it now”. The inspiration came from an old Italian proverb ‘ Quando finisce la partita il re ed il pedone finiscono nella stessa scatola ’ (meaning ' Af ter the game the queen/

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