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In this new stage, the art of Hayden remains more
supple, more human, less mechanical than it was before.
Soon the artist succeeds in adapting his new vision,
his style, to the landscape and thus discovers a manner
of classicism which is his very own. Because there is
in it his will of simplification, his way of erasing details,
of retaining only the essential to construct space in
big coloured masses, there is, we say, what is the
principle of classicism, that is to say, an art dominated
simultaneously by science and by intelligence.
By this achievement, by this renewal which is the con­
sequence of what came before, Hayden deserves to take
place amongst the painters who have been able, at a
moment when one feared some decline, to bring the
proof of the continuity of their gifts and, in addition,
of a youth active and refound. ■

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