The Four Whoresmen of the Apocalypse

As a final outcome for my BFA, I created a large-scale oil painting polyptych; The Four Whoresmen of the Apocalypse. This series depicts four separate portraits of women riding on dramaticised horses in reference to the traditional biblical story and historic art of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The four women reflect the allegory through the correlation in the colour of the horses, and the objects they hold. According to the Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica, the allegory is as follows;

In Christianity, the four horsemen who, according to the book of Revelation (6:1–8), appear with the opening of the first four of the seven seals that bring forth the cataclysm of
the apocalypse. The first horseman, a conqueror with a bow and crown, rides a white horse, which scholars sometimes interpret to symbolize Christ or the Antichrist; the second horseman is given a great sword and rides a red horse, symbolizing war and bloodshed; the third carries a balance scale, rides a black horse, and symbolizes famine; and the fourth horseman rides a pale horse and is identified as Death.