ROBERT HAWKINS
Pseudo-Realism
PSEUDO-REALISM is the practice and style of painting realistic pictures when you really don't know what you're doing. I just made up the term. (You think? It's probably a well-trite artistic copywrite, I just don't know it and think I'm clever for making it up all by myself, which I did, just not first.)
Anyway, it means bluffing one's way through the process of painting, when one doesn't really know what something looks like, (especially figures) or is constructed, but you just fake it and hope that it looks "real" enough as a finished product. It has to do with not being formally educated in art. Fer instance, the guilotines I paint could never really work, as there's no mechanism to them. The same with the bear traps, and alot of it. I don't know how a jumping figure, say, is built, or it's proportions, or dynamics, and I usually can't get a picture in the exact pose I'm in need of (even these days with the internet), so I just make it up, and hope for the best. So it's like fake realism. So it's pseudo-realism, get it?
Biography
Robert Hawkins was born in Sunnyvale California in 1951. He was living in NYC by 1978, and stayed there till 2001, when he moved to London, where he lives still, supposedly. Of course, there's plenty more to it than that, but I try to be mysterious. I'll be weighing my need to be mysterious with my urge to talk about myself over the period of constructing this website and maybe put lists of Art Shows I've been in, and Press I've had. I'll definitely put Glenn O'brien's rave about me. Maybe that'll be enough.
Here's a picture of me dressed up like Salvador Dali.
SO HAVE A NICE TIME, I GUESS, AND DON'T FORGET TO WRITE IN THE GUESTBOOK, IF IT WORKS.
I THINK THAT IF YOU CLICK ON MOST OF THESE PICTURES YOU CAN SEE A BIGGER VERSION.
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Whines about my lack of taste, my aesthetic vision, constructive criticism regarding my artistic dexterity, and bids to communicate with, or even perhaps to one day meet, Robert Hawkins may be directed to this e-mail address. But it is much better to go to the "GUEST BOOK" section and write stuff there for everybody else to read. In fact, don't use this e-mail unless it's an emergency. And good luck!
