The idea

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The paintings in the slideshow below are by the artist Michael Craig-Martin. They are from a series call Seven Deadly Sins. Click through them and look at how he has overlaid the letters on top of each other and used really bright colours. Can you see what the words are? It’s kind of hard to read them.
He has also painted some everyday objects over the letters like chairs and umbrellas. What else can you see?

Anger 2008
Tate
© Michael Craig-Martin

Greed 2008
Tate
© Michael Craig-Martin

Envy 2008
Tate
© Michael Craig-Martin