By Nita McKinney
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.
Once he had finished studying, he went into industrial and interior design, working in these fiends for more than twenty years. During this time he did no serious fine art but once he decided to return to it, he did not look back. He has produced his fine paintings prolifically since then, becoming known throughout the world.
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.
Once he had finished studying, he went into industrial and interior design, working in these fiends for more than twenty years. During this time he did no serious fine art but once he decided to return to it, he did not look back. He has produced his fine paintings prolifically since then, becoming known throughout the world.
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.
He chooses a subject, studies it well, then disassembles it and reassembles to create his own images. He says the root from which his works grow is memory colored by imagination. The essence of a subject is more important to him than the detail and this ability to see the abstract in a subject is one of his great strengths.
He begins a painting by using color washes to create areas of dark and light. This part of the process is inspired by Asian artists who are able see the simplest of abstract forms in a subject. After he has divided a painting into background, middle ground and foreground, he considers a color palette. Depth and color is then added, often using an impressionistic style with broad brushstrokes.
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 works appear in more than three hundred public and private collections, including The Rockefeller Foundation and Stanford Universit
He chooses a subject, studies it well, then disassembles it and reassembles to create his own images. He says the root from which his works grow is memory colored by imagination. The essence of a subject is more important to him than the detail and this ability to see the abstract in a subject is one of his great strengths.
He begins a painting by using color washes to create areas of dark and light. This part of the process is inspired by Asian artists who are able see the simplest of abstract forms in a subject. After he has divided a painting into background, middle ground and foreground, he considers a color palette. Depth and color is then added, often using an impressionistic style with broad brushstrokes.
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 works appear in more than three hundred public and private collections, including The Rockefeller Foundation and Stanford Universit
He begins a painting by using color washes to create areas of dark and light. This part of the process is inspired by Asian artists who are able see the simplest of abstract forms in a subject. After he has divided a painting into background, middle ground and foreground, he considers a color palette. Depth and color is then added, often using an impressionistic style with broad brushstrokes.
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 works appear in more than three hundred public and private collections, including The Rockefeller Foundation and Stanford University. The Max Hayslette Archives Collection is housed at the Morgantown campus of West Virginia University. He has also held numerous exhibitions over the years in various Mid-Atlantic and Midwest states and also exhibits in the Pacific Northwest where he lives today.
About the Author:
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 works appear in more than three hundred public and private collections, including The Rockefeller Foundation and Stanford University. The Max Hayslette Archives Collection is housed at the Morgantown campus of West Virginia University. He has also held numerous exhibitions over the years in various Mid-Atlantic and Midwest states and also exhibits in the Pacific Northwest where he lives today.
About the Author:
When you are looking for works by Max Hayslette, visit the web pages online here. You can see images of quality pieces at http://bevsfineart.com now.