The Seven Deadly Sins of Modern Times (1993) is an acrylic painting on a wooden table by the contemporary Australian artist Susan Dorothea White, where she proposes that today's deadly sins are the opposite of the original ones.[1]
Inspired by the composition and design of The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things by Hieronymus Bosch, White has described her depiction of the inverses; for example, gluttony is supplanted by "dieting", and "sucking up" stands in for envy.[2]
In the depiction of each of these deadly sins is an animal or plant which has been introduced to Australia to ill effect, as the cockroach represents squandering and a feral water buffalo demonstrates indifference. Instead of the eye of God which Bosch placed in the center of his design, White has incorporated an enlargement of the iris of her pet cat, which represents Gaia, with the rubric "The Eye of Gaia Sees All". The artist has also produced a woodcut of the same title and similar composition and another large acrylic painting on a wooden table The Seven Deadly Isms - the latter has been described as a "Boschian extravaganza ... depicting such contemporary obsessions as Materialism and Workaholism in intricate figurative tableaux".[3]
To view the Seven Deadly Sins of Modern Times properly requires that you walk around it and view each of the sections, which are artfully integrated. The center is a nocturnal eye with the inscriptions "The Seven Deadly Sins" on one side, and "The Eye of Gaia Sees All" on the other. The sections are described below after a short, general definition from Princeton's WordNet.
^Gravotta, Luciana. "History of Sin: How It All Began". Scientific American Mind. Scientific American. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
^The Seven Deadly Sins of Modern Times, 1993 by Susan Dorothea White
^Margolis, Andrew. White, Kahukiwa, & Hotz in lively shows at Montserrat, Gallery & Studio (New York), Nov/Dec. 1998, p.13.
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