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Max
Hayslette
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 art, prints and posters
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 all of his art, prints and posters
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.
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