ABSTRACT
The capriccio is a pictorial ‘invention’ creating an imaginary or ‘analogue’ reality by combining existing buildings or places with imaginary ones, shifting or re-organizing their locations and their groupings into uniquely suggestive visions. In fact what characterizes the capriccio is: truth, reality and realism. It enhances a formidable potential of life and livability in beautifully composed, complex and memorable environments, places, landscapes and buildings which only exist in the realm of desire. Unlike much fantastic and Modernist art and painting it generally respects perspectival space and Euclidian geometries, realistic light, shade and shadow, proportions and figural realism complemented and intensified with elements of mythology and poetic fiction.
