In 17 episodes, he offers a schematic portrait of a heroine with no depth.
One schematic portrait of a man's skeleton points out that the skull is notable for a "thickened ridge where his shoulder and neck muscles connected to the back of his head," caused by heavy lifting.
The same artist also completed his schematic portrait, which showed a series of circles connected by two perpendicular arrows.
Actually, these books get written all the time, from Margaret Drabble's schematic portraits of the 1970s to Jonathan Coe's of the 1980s and Blake Morrison or Richard T Kelly's uneven sagas of the New Labour years, right up to the recent flood of credit crunch literature.
Whether he was painting donkeys and vegetable patches and a carob tree, in paintings as detailed as The Farm (bought by Ernest Hemingway), or in paintings as emptied-out as his schematic portraits of Catalan peasants, or his triptychs and late abstractions, the drive is all his own.
For each region of the diagram, labeled with a Roman numeral from I to X, a schematic description of the phase portrait is proposed in gray, using solid/dashed circles to represent stable/unstable limit cycle, full/empty dots for stable/unstable foci and an empty dot with a line in the middle to represent saddles.
Mary Lee Corlett and Hendrickson noted that the "schematic head" of the medallion portrait of Alexander Hamilton, the prominent feature of the print, "shows him as a planar, anteater-like being" with a "hair-do of the young Picasso" and eyes similar to a "figure by Francis Picabia".
Her head shots, reminiscent of the schematic faces in German Expressionist portraits, are identified only by letter.
Watching it again recently, I was struck by the conventional and schematic nature of this four-character portrait of a family vacation in hell.
Increasingly, my youngest daughter's drawings of me – pea-sized head balanced on enormous circular body, lines for limbs – looked less like a four year old trying to grapple with concepts of space and representation in the pre-schematic stage of development than a photorealist portrait.
The four other artists are more formally oriented, although Mike Solomon's schematic headgear, rendered in liquid wax on canvas, are symbolic portraits with implicit personalities.
