#synchromism

Stanton Macdonald-Wright (1890-1973) — Prometheus [oil on wood panel, 1965]

I don’t know if that producer ever located S. Macdonald-Wright, but it doesn’t seem like the artist ever developed much of an involvement with Hollywood, despite his early experiments with color film.

Stanton MacDonald-Wright was an American painter who co-founded the avant-garde Synchromism movement with his friend Morgan Russell. “Synchromism simply means ‘with color’ as symphony means ‘with sound’,” the artist said. “Our idea was to produce an art whose genesis lay, not in objectivity, but in form produced in color.”

Stanton MacDonald-Wright, Synchromy No. 3, 1917, oil/canvas (Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn)

Synchromism: form (1913-1914)

[image description: an abstract acrylic painting with a yellow background and bright, interconnected symbols and patterns of different colors across the entire canvas. lines, dots, circles, and gradients join to form a mosaic of rainbow designs / end image description]

The artist's life is the best life... if you can get through the first forty years.

Stanton Macdonald-Wright (1890-1973) — Atlas [oil on wood panel, 1965]