Kandyskin IV (Pride)
Title
Kandyskin IV (Pride)
Subject
Italy -- Emigration and immigration -- Italian-American art -- United States -- Art history -- 20th century
Description
IV. PRIDE
Sistine Eve takes the apple from the Serpent, as the wails of a saxophone trace through air the fall of the first veil, pride, the Michelangelesque outdoing of Nature, and recommend a Socratic examination oflife. The auto-autopsy of art begins.
Sexophonous wails encoil her Lacoontic limbs,
as the primal veil,
Michaelangeline,
skyquillted,
terragrasced,
seafinnegan,
Luciferlinear,
flourishes and falls.
[Piu' basso sprofondo.]
(transcription of the text in the painting)
Sistine Eve takes the apple from the Serpent, as the wails of a saxophone trace through air the fall of the first veil, pride, the Michelangelesque outdoing of Nature, and recommend a Socratic examination oflife. The auto-autopsy of art begins.
Sexophonous wails encoil her Lacoontic limbs,
as the primal veil,
Michaelangeline,
skyquillted,
terragrasced,
seafinnegan,
Luciferlinear,
flourishes and falls.
[Piu' basso sprofondo.]
(transcription of the text in the painting)
Creator
Tom DiSalvo
Date
1988
Contributor
Viviana Pezzullo, Domenica Diraviam
Format
Oil on Linen
122 x 152 cm
Type
Painting
Coverage
US
Physical Dimensions
122 x 152 cm
Collection
Citation
Tom DiSalvo
, “Kandyskin IV (Pride),” Italian-American Memories: Documentary Archive, accessed April 19, 2024, https://itamm.omeka.net/items/show/382.