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“Beauty Awakens the Soul to Act,” Painting by Luciana Palazzolo (2018)

November 25, 2022 By Sebastian Spadavecchio

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“Black shapes dance across the large paper surface. The texture and viscosity is not homogeneous, because this way I was able to plays with transparency and opaqueness.The close ups show that some areas have the acrylic paint diluted in an almost watercolor. Also I have used pencils of different hardness to draw the lines. This painting can be enjoyed horizontally or vertically. It would be shipped to the collector rolled up in a tube, which would cut down considerably the shipping cost.”   –“About the Artwork,” Saatchi Art

“I produced a Dante’s Inferno series, a Joy series influenced by the work of Pollock, at the moment I am working on an Entanglement theme, where the line represent our lives, the paths that we have taken or could have taken. The lighter pencil marks are choices we didn’t make, the darker ink ones the decisions we made and marks we made on people and events.”   –From Luciana Palazzolo’s profile on Saatchi Art

View more works by Luciana Palazzolo here.

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2018, Abstract Art, Abstract Expressionism, Beauty, Beauty Awakens the Soul to Act, Italian, Italy, New York, New York City, Painting, Purgatorio, Purgatory, Spirituality

Kevin Young and Robin Coste Lewis, Poems After Rauschenberg’s Inferno (2017)

October 31, 2021 By Sephora Affa, FSU '24

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“Robert Rauschenberg: Thirty-Four Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno, was published in conjunction with the first major retrospective on Rauschenberg’s career since the artist’s death in 2008, this book presents the complete set of 34 drawings, and newly commissioned poetry from Kevin Young and Robin Coste Lewis, each reflecting on a selection of drawings and their corresponding Cantos. Young’s half of the 34 Cantos are titled “The Dark Wood” and Lewis’ are erasures of John Ciardi’s Dante’s translation, titled “Dante Comes to America: 20 January 2017: An Erasure of 17 Cantos from Ciardi’s Inferno, after Robert Rauschenberg.” [. . . ]    —Poetry Society of America, (retrieved October 24, 2021)

View the poems and illustrations for Cantos II and XXIII here.

Relatedly, see the post on Robert Rauschenberg’s 34 Illustrations here.

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture, Written Word
Tagged with: 2017, Abstract Expressionism, American Poetry, Dark Wood, Drawings, Erasure, Illustrations, Inferno, Poetry, Selva oscura, Translations, United States

“Dante (Quinto Canto),” Painting by Mihail Ivanov

February 19, 2021 By Jasmine George, FSU '24

“This is the fifth song in the Divine Comedy, where Dante Alighieri ventures through the circles of hell, a lonely soul separates itself from the others and presents herself to the author, telling him her sad life story.”   —SAATCHI ART

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