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Artist > Max Hayslette  (71 paintings.)

Max Hayslette

“Every image begins in my mind” says Max Hayslette, “the combination of a long dance between memory and imagination. Memory colored by imagination is the root from which my images grow. As is my practice in all of my paintings, I choose a subject – sometimes more than one – study it or them well, and then mentally disassemble the parts, mixing and reassembling them into a new image with a new spirit, which is my own.”

Hayslette considers himself a romantic artist, one who seeks to give his works a warm and gentle spiritual quality. For him, the essence and spirituality of his subject are more important than detail, and he finds that he can grasp this spiritual essence more completely when his subject is illumined by the dawn twilight halfway between light and dark. Says Hayslette: “Painting is a silent medium and well suited to exploring the ethereal qualities of early morning light, before the sounds of the day invade the scene. Painting is a process which is accomplished in silence, but when everything works right, it culminates in a triumphant symphony for the soul.” The viewer of Max Hayslette’s work will witness a symphony of color and light, and their soul will be naturally and effortlessly won over by a quiet triumph of beauty.

 

 

Max Hayslette was born in Rupert, West Virginia, in 1930. He completed his studies at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1952, where he studied with Alexander Archipenko and Egon Weiner.

Mr. Hayslette considers himself a romantic artist, one who seeks to give his work a gentle and spiritual quality. His dreamy landscapes evoke sentiments of warmth, comfort and familiarity as they transport the viewer to numerous exotic destinations in the far corners of the world.

Mr. Hayslette likes to work on-site for his paintings whenever possible. He takes photos, tenders sketches and creates color notes. He takes particular care in recording atmospheric color temperatures. Mr. Hayslette feels that different areas of the world have very distinct color temperatures. His quest to see the landscape as a flat composition of light and dark stems from his love of Asian woodcuts. He believes that the Asian artist is able to reduce a subject to its simplest abstract form.

His strongest attribute as a painter is his ability to see the abstract in his subject. The skeleton of each of his paintings is black and white, two-dimensional abstracts. This gives him the composition, the weights and balances on which he later hangs the more traditional elements of the subject. After the composition is formed and the painting divided into its planes, foreground, middleground and background, then a color palette is considered that will further enhance the storytelling of the painting.

Mr. Hayslette lists Franz Kline and Richard Diebenkorn as two artists he admires. He sees Diebenkom's paintings as abstracted landscapes, flat design rendered on several planes, with strong Asian influences. He studied and admired great works of Asian masters in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Kyoto. The artist has been greatly influenced by these travels.

Max Hayslette is represented in over 300 private, corporate, and public collections, most notably The Rockefeller Foundations, Stanford University, and Wells Fargo Bank.

A very abridged list of his exhibitions includes: Art Institute of Chicago, Seattle Art Museum, The Feragil Gallery of New York City, The Findlay Gallery of Chicago, Christopher Clark Gallery of San Francisco, Ken Behm Gallery of Seattle, and Hanson Gallery of Carmel.

 

Villa de Conti in Au...
ID:1861

Valley of the Kings ...
ID:1860

Tuscan Sunrise
ID:1859

Tuscan Rain
ID:1858

Sun and Sea IV
ID:1857

Sun and Sea III
ID:1856

Sun and Sea II
ID:1855

Sun and Sea I
ID:1854

Ship and Shore II
ID:1853

Ship and Shore I
ID:1852

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