Capriccio 2005
Capriccio
Catalogue raisonné no. 676
Artist's CR 616
2005
Kinkell
Oil on canvas
72 x 64 inches / 0 cm
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Gerald Laing: Iraq War Paintings, Spike Gallery, New York, 2005chevron_right
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Gerald Laing: Iraq War Paintings, Globe Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2007chevron_right
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Gerald Laing, 'Artist’s Notes on War Paintings', unpublished manuscript, 2004chevron_right
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Diana Newall/Grant Pooke, Art History: The Basics, Routledge, 2008chevron_right
Selected Citations and Comments
A capriccio is a sudden start, motion or freak. A free, fantastic style, a prank, trick or caper. A thing or work of fancy. 1696: Phillips. ‘Capriccios are pieces of music, poetry and painting wherein the force of the Imagination has better success than the Rules of Art’. This painting is full of paradox and ambiguity. These qualities encourage abstract thought, and allow the eye and the mind to wander and speculate. Thus it becomes possible to avoid thinking about the surreal arrangement of the human figure, and the internal life of prisoner. Formal concerns become a sort of anaesthetic, or at least a way of re-composing the reality of Abu Ghraib.
, 'Artist's Notes on War Paintings', unpublished manuscript, 2004
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Study for Capriccio, Oil on canvas, 2005, 677chevron_right