Luke Chueh reinterprets Dante’s Inferno
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Sep 22, 2009 at 08:08 |
Inferno is the first part of Dante’s Divine Comedy series. Written in the 14th century, it’s an epic poem about the nine layers of hell and what we can all look forward to when we die. While no one has ever bothered reading the whole thing (it’s like 14 thousand lines long) the basic gist is we’re all fucked.
Depending on what your particular vice is (sloth, gluttony, violence, whatever), hell involves boiling rivers of blood, bastard snakes, getting your faced stabbed off, fiery deserts, attack dogs, etc, etc. Back when all this was written people genuinely believed in hell (which was underneath Jerusalem, apparently) and all this ‘unpleasantness’ scared the shit out of them.
Six hundred years later, LA artist Luke Chueh has reinterpreted Dante’s vision with teddy bears, beckoning cats, donkeys and monkeys. Apparently hell just isn’t what it used to be.
More at lukechueh.com.
Posted By: Mikolai Napieralski
Tags: Art
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