Irving Haynes - Artist Info

About Irving Haynes

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Irving B Hayes
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    The following essay is by Ronald J. Onorato?, Department of Art and Art History,? University of Rhode Island


    Beyond Modern: Optical Space in the Paintings of Irving Haynes

    Created over a half century, Irving Haynes' paintings on paper are infinite variations on a very modern type of space. Over the course of his career, Haynes worked with numerous techniques to evoke the spatial richness of modernist abstract painting. Some early works from the 1960's and 70's allude broadly to abstract expressionist handling or landscape formats featuring loosely handled arcs or organic shaped areas of color. Others seem more purely gestural with a thin arabesque line or repetitive marks covering an entire surface. In every phase Ha...

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