Skip to content
Contents
A WordPress site
Menu and widgets
Gareth Hawker websites
Link to Portraits and Pictures by Gareth Hawker
Guide to using the website – Pictorial Representation
1 Opening remarks
1.1 Preface – How I came to write this book.
1.2 Introduction – the Two Components of Artistic Style.
2 Basic Shapes
2.1 Basic shapes – The primordial circle
2.2 Basic shapes – Schemata
3 The Viewfinder and Photography
3.1 Viewfinder – Preserving the Image
3.2 Copying the Image by Eye
3.3 Photography
3.3.01 – Fox Talbot – The Pencil of Nature
3.3.02 – Scientific photography
3.3.03 – Emerson – Naturalistic photography
3.3.04 – Emerson – Renunciation
3.3.05 – Emerson – Differential analysis
3.3.06 – Pictorial Photography
3.3.07 – Pure Photography
3.3.08 – Looking like a photograph
3.3.09- Recognition versus imagination
3.3.10 – Image making approaches compared
4 The Eyes of Innocence and Experience
4.01 – Illusion to Delusion
4.02 Coldstream: A kind of innocence as the result of careful measurement.
4.03 Inventing versus Recording
4.04 – What you really see versus the image on the picture plane
4.05 -The Innocent Eye
4.06 – Photographic Memory
4.07 – Bushman art
4.08 – The French Impressionist approach
4.09 – Impressionism versus Photography
4.10 – Gombrich – Representation and Reality
4.11 – Image on the retina
05. Summary: Schemata versus Viewfinder
5.1 – Manipulating versus Differentiating
5.2 – Levels of Thinking
5.3 – Concept diagram – Art versus Photography
5.4 Superiority of subject
06 Colour
6.1 – Colour Theory
6.2 – Colour Printing
6.4 – Colour: Venetian versus Florentine
07 – Schemata and Style
08 – The Core or Grand Style
08.1 – The Ideal
08.2 – Classicism is not achieved by following rules
08.03 – The definition of Classic
08.04 Style and variations on the Core or Grand style
08.05 Manner versus Mannerism
09 – Components of Style
09.01 Scene (Component of Style)
09.02 Visual Vocabulary – schemata- (Component of Style)
09.03 Elevation (Component of Style)
09.04 Visualisation (Component of Style)
09.05 Rendering (Component of Style)
09.06 – Wölfflin
09.07 – Paint quality
09.08 – composition in colour
Appendices
Appendix – Emerson: The Death of Naturalistic Photography (1890)
Appendix: Giacometti and James Lord
Renoir’s Change of Style
Blurb/ promotional piece
Sir Joshua Reynolds – on Imitating Nature
Test Page
About
Link to Portraits and Pictures by Gareth Hawker
2 Basic Shapes
These chapters deal with the elements which make up a representation.
← 1.2 Introduction – the Two Components of Artistic Style.
← 2.1 Basic shapes – The primordial circle