The God of Mockery and Criticism
I did something here that I have never done before. I reworked the original picture of Momus.
After reading your comments yesterday I noticed that most of you got distracted by the bull and the guy with the door in his chest. These were things I took from a fable about the god where he had to judge a man, a bull and a house and found them all at fault. The man because you can’t see his heart, the bull because it doesn’t have eyes in his horns to guide it when it was charging and the house because it doesn’t have wheels to roll it away when you have troublesome neighbours. So I wanted to include that in the picture. Well, the house I removed because it was too large. I tried. 🙂
As my main interest was to display the god of mockery and criticism, I took your criticism to heart and removed the guy and the bull. I also increased Momus in size so he looms over the people. The final composite I also processed differently, because I had to apply the paint anew.
Please take another look at the picture and let me know what you think of the new version. I also hope that it conveys what I wanted to say with the picture in a better way.
For your reference, you can still see the original version of the picture below.
Share your thoughts! I'd love to hear what you think.