- Synchromism
Synchromism was an
art movement founded in 1912 by Americanartists Stanton MacDonald-Wright andMorgan Russell .Synchromism is based on the idea that
color andsound are similar phenomena, and that the colors in apainting can be orchestrated in the same harmonious way that acomposer arrangesnotes in asymphony . Macdonald-Wright and Russell believed that by painting in color scales, their work could evokemusic al sensations.The abstract "synchromies" are based on color scales, using rhythmic color forms with advancing and reducing hues. They typically have a central
vortex and explode in complex colorharmonies .The first synchromist painting, Russell's "Synchromy in Green," exhibited at the
Paris Salon des Indépendants in 1913. Later that year, the first synchromist exhibition by Macdonald-Wright and Russell was shown inMunich . Next were exhibits in Paris and, the following year, inNew York .These synchromies are some of the first abstract non-objective paintings in American art, and became the first American
avant-garde art movement to gain international attention.The multicolored shapes of synchromist paintings often resembled those found in orphism, but MacDonald-Wright insisted that synchromism was a unique art form, and "has nothing to do with orphism and anybody who has read the first catalogue of synchromism ... would realize that we poked fun at orphism".
Other American painters experimenting with synchromism included Thomas Hart Benton,
Andrew Dasburg , andPatrick Henry Bruce .References
* (1999). "Synchromism: Morgan Russell and Stanton Macdonald-Wright", illus. (11 color), 29 pp. Hollis Taggart Galleries, NY.
External links
* [http://www.minusspace.com/chronology1910-1919.htm Cronology of related art fields in the 1910s] Listing discusses Synchromism
ee also
Synesthesia
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