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Capriccio-1
Capriccio is a musical term meaning “a quick, improvisational, spirited piece of music.” This painting (54” x 48”) had its genesis during an artists’ trip to Scandinavia in the summer of 2006.

The idea for the color palette came from Anders Zorn’s studio and museum in northern Sweden. A technique using red came from a Degas show in Copenhagen. The compositional ideas came from earlier studies of Mannerist and Venetian artists in Italy. The design also has a bit of Clyfford Still (from the New York School) thrown in. The brushwork is from previous Franz Kline work. It’s an abstract that a colony of “ants” helped produce.

Capriccio-1 -- Brushwork The activities of the ants were inspired by the Santa Fe Institute’s publication Swarm Intelligence, from Natural to Artificial Systems. Rodney Brook’s subsumptive architecture and specific microrules had a hand in how the ants and painting evolved. In effect, the ants constructed this pattern by laying down pebbles using stigmergy. Later, Dulcinea converts these pebbles into brushstrokes on the canvas.
 Capriccio-1 -- Brushwork

 

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