http://web.me.com/profkoslow/Susan_Koslow/Capriccio_.html These pen and india--ink drawings on newsprint (18 x 24) date from c 1961--1962. They were done at one “sitting,” and were a free flow of invented motifs. None were intended as preparatory studies for a picture. Some originate in personal experiences and emotions, others from art viewed in classes at Barnard College, Columbia University, the Metropolitan Museum of Art or books. None are copies. The lower left figure is a character that reappears more fully realized in a later capriccio and that is vaguely related to German literature, in particular, to characters created by Thomas Mann. The woman holding a child’s hand recalls Renaissance types, while other individual figures and groups of figures have devotional aspects, also Italian inspired. Love and lovemaking is splashed all over the page; bodily functions, as might be seen in figures in Flemish and Dutch 16th and 17th century art, are played with freely. I chose capriccio rather than studies or sketches to capture the flavor of the immediacy of invention and the whimsy and playfulness of many the actors. Scattering the figures across the sheet recalls arrangements in Hokusai’s Manga http://web.me.com/profkoslow/Susan_Koslow/Capriccio_.html#0 71e14306-7f0e-4798-bf06-4432ae88e3d4 http://web.me.com/profkoslow/Susan_Koslow/Capriccio__files/Media/IMG_7669.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.me.com/profkoslow/Susan_Koslow/Capriccio__files/Media/IMG_7669.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Capriccio 1</p></div></div> http://web.me.com/profkoslow/Susan_Koslow/Capriccio_.html#1 dcf1de76-e974-4b9d-96d5-f78865b02d60 http://web.me.com/profkoslow/Susan_Koslow/Capriccio__files/Media/IMG_7670.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.me.com/profkoslow/Susan_Koslow/Capriccio__files/Media/IMG_7670.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">detail 1: A Dandy or a Courtier</p></div></div> http://web.me.com/profkoslow/Susan_Koslow/Capriccio_.html#2 097fc9bc-2f0a-4050-94df-d7fec2fadc1e http://web.me.com/profkoslow/Susan_Koslow/Capriccio__files/Media/IMG_7671.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.me.com/profkoslow/Susan_Koslow/Capriccio__files/Media/IMG_7671.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">detail 2: Lovers, Mother with Child, urinating boy</p></div></div> http://web.me.com/profkoslow/Susan_Koslow/Capriccio_.html#3 04827792-5f93-451c-b296-d947661e6fa2 http://web.me.com/profkoslow/Susan_Koslow/Capriccio__files/Media/IMG_7672.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.me.com/profkoslow/Susan_Koslow/Capriccio__files/Media/IMG_7672.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">detail 2: Lovers, Mother with Child, defecating boy</p></div></div> http://web.me.com/profkoslow/Susan_Koslow/Capriccio_.html#4 dd5f48ca-2c39-4d29-9402-d081a49f46b4 http://web.me.com/profkoslow/Susan_Koslow/Capriccio__files/Media/IMG_7673.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.me.com/profkoslow/Susan_Koslow/Capriccio__files/Media/IMG_7673.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Mother with Child</p></div></div> http://web.me.com/profkoslow/Susan_Koslow/Capriccio_.html#5 1069b038-a803-4458-88cb-6cca611e0f9c http://web.me.com/profkoslow/Susan_Koslow/Capriccio__files/Media/IMG_7674.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.me.com/profkoslow/Susan_Koslow/Capriccio__files/Media/IMG_7674.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Lovers: Intercourse</p></div></div> http://web.me.com/profkoslow/Susan_Koslow/Capriccio_.html#6 5f18c32f-3c55-4bf3-9308-7ea72a4f084b http://web.me.com/profkoslow/Susan_Koslow/Capriccio__files/Media/IMG_7675.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.me.com/profkoslow/Susan_Koslow/Capriccio__files/Media/IMG_7675.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Lovers, Mothers and their Children</p></div></div> http://web.me.com/profkoslow/Susan_Koslow/Capriccio_.html#7 5c3c9ff0-6c69-44bb-9615-6ae96f69003c http://web.me.com/profkoslow/Susan_Koslow/Capriccio__files/Media/IMG_7676.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.me.com/profkoslow/Susan_Koslow/Capriccio__files/Media/IMG_7676.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; 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padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Praying Woman and Hunchbacked Man with Top Hat</p></div></div> http://web.me.com/profkoslow/Susan_Koslow/Capriccio_.html#10 c0222ffb-c7cf-45fd-8959-430d13544da2 http://web.me.com/profkoslow/Susan_Koslow/Capriccio__files/Media/IMG_7679.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.me.com/profkoslow/Susan_Koslow/Capriccio__files/Media/IMG_7679.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Pregnant Nude Woman and Lover [?]</p></div></div> http://web.me.com/profkoslow/Susan_Koslow/Capriccio_.html#11 a27764dd-64a7-48a9-b7fd-45f3f1685dc4 http://web.me.com/profkoslow/Susan_Koslow/Capriccio__files/Media/IMG_7680.jpg?derivative=thumb http://web.me.com/profkoslow/Susan_Koslow/Capriccio__files/Media/IMG_7680.jpg?derivative=micro <div style="padding: 0px; " class="style_External_0_0"><div class="style_2"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">The Pregnant Girl turns away, her lover tries to draw her back</p></div></div>