Max Hayslette showed his artistic potential long before he received any formal training. This world renowned landscape artist was born in West Virginia and was only a teenager when he held the first exhibition of his paintings. He had them hanging in the windows of a furniture store. Later, he went to Illinois to study art at the Art Institute of Chicago.
While he was there, he was exposed to the Bauhaus movement. This movement was to have a profound influence on modern design and many of its driving personalities were living and working in Chicago when he arrived there. This movement had an influence on him he never forgot.
After his studies, he worked for over twenty years as both an industrial and an interior designer. He did not do any serious fine art during these years but made a decision to return to it. Since then his output has been prolific and he has become world renowned.
His loves traveling and has painted scenes of many different locations. He enjoys working on site, taking photographs, making sketches and recording details of color. His paintings manage to transport viewers to all sorts of places, from the vineyards of Provence to the Tuscan hills. He feels that places have a temperature and he captures these in warm, deep reds or cool, clear blues.
Once he has decided on a particular subject, he studies it very well. He absorbs all the details and although he says that memory plays a part in his process, his works are also inspired by his imagination. He regards capturing the essence of a subject as more important than any detail.
His process involves first using pure washes of color to create light and dark areas. This is in the style of the Asian masters and enables him to distill the essence from the scene. He then he has a composition on which to build depth. He then creates this depth, using a more impressionist European style.
Even he regards his style as being difficult to define. He does not see himself as an impressionist or a realist. Sometimes his scenes are very detailed and at other times they seem to capture more of a remembered image than a realistic one. He says that he could probably describe his style as updated impressionism.
He now lives in Kingston, Washington, overlooking Puget Sound. He loves to paint in silence and this stillness and timelessness is reflected in his paintings. Those who love his works appreciate their romantic, almost spiritual quality.
His paintings are represented in over three hundred private, corporate, and public collections, including Stanford University, The Rockefeller Foundation and The Smithsonian. He has exhibited widely in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states as well as in the Pacific Northwest where he lives. West Virginia University houses the Max Hayslette Archives Collection at its Morgantown campus.
While he was there, he was exposed to the Bauhaus movement. This movement was to have a profound influence on modern design and many of its driving personalities were living and working in Chicago when he arrived there. This movement had an influence on him he never forgot.
After his studies, he worked for over twenty years as both an industrial and an interior designer. He did not do any serious fine art during these years but made a decision to return to it. Since then his output has been prolific and he has become world renowned.
His loves traveling and has painted scenes of many different locations. He enjoys working on site, taking photographs, making sketches and recording details of color. His paintings manage to transport viewers to all sorts of places, from the vineyards of Provence to the Tuscan hills. He feels that places have a temperature and he captures these in warm, deep reds or cool, clear blues.
Once he has decided on a particular subject, he studies it very well. He absorbs all the details and although he says that memory plays a part in his process, his works are also inspired by his imagination. He regards capturing the essence of a subject as more important than any detail.
His process involves first using pure washes of color to create light and dark areas. This is in the style of the Asian masters and enables him to distill the essence from the scene. He then he has a composition on which to build depth. He then creates this depth, using a more impressionist European style.
Even he regards his style as being difficult to define. He does not see himself as an impressionist or a realist. Sometimes his scenes are very detailed and at other times they seem to capture more of a remembered image than a realistic one. He says that he could probably describe his style as updated impressionism.
He now lives in Kingston, Washington, overlooking Puget Sound. He loves to paint in silence and this stillness and timelessness is reflected in his paintings. Those who love his works appreciate their romantic, almost spiritual quality.
His paintings are represented in over three hundred private, corporate, and public collections, including Stanford University, The Rockefeller Foundation and The Smithsonian. He has exhibited widely in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states as well as in the Pacific Northwest where he lives. West Virginia University houses the Max Hayslette Archives Collection at its Morgantown campus.
Aucun commentaire:
Enregistrer un commentaire