Airplane Synchromy in Yellow-Orange. Stanton MacDonald-Wright. 1920. Oil on canvas. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Synchromism was an art movement founded in 1912 by American artists Stanton MacDonald-Wright and Morgan Russell. 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... There is also the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), located in Manhattan. ... An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time (usually a few months, years or decades). ... An artist is someone who employs creative talent to produce works of art. ... Stanton Macdonald-Wright (1890-1973) was an American artist, specifically a painter. ... Morgan Russell (1886 - 1953) was a U.S. abstract painter. ...

Synchromism is based on the idea that color and sound are similar phenomena, and that the colors in a painting can be orchestrated in the same harmonious way that a composer arranges notes in a symphony. Macdonald-Wright and Russell believed that by painting in color scales, their work could evoke musical sensations. Color is an important part of the visual arts. ... A schematic representation of auditory signaling Sound is an alternation in pressure, particle displacement, or particle velocity propagated in an elastic material (Olson 1957) or series of mechanical compressions and rarefactions or longitudinal waves that successively propagate through medium that are at least a little compressible (solid, liquid or gas... The Mona Lisa is perhaps the best-known artistic painting in the Western world. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... A symphony is an extended piece of music for orchestra, especially one in the form of a sonata. ... Scale (botany) Scale (zoology) Scale (medical) Scale (music) Scale (measurement) Scale (chemical) Scale (social sciences) Scale (spatial) Scale (computing) Order of magnitude Logarithmic scale Scale model Architects scale Engineers scale This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same... The art of singing and dancing in a prepared fictional play has been a time-honored tradition ranging to the early days of civilization. ...

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 color harmonies. This article is about the concept of abstraction in general. ... This is an article on the real vortex phenomena. ... This article is about musical harmony. ...

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 in Munich. Next were exhibits in Paris and, the following year, in New York. The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... Salon des Indépendants is an exhibition of art held annually since 1884 in Paris, France. ... Munich: Frauenkirche and Town Hall steeple Munich (German: München pronunciation) is the state capital of the German Bundesland of Bavaria. ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki Official languages None Area 141,205 km² (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water 18,795 km² (13. ...

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. A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a French phrase, one of many French phrases used by English speakers. ...

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". Orphism or Orphic cubism, is a term coined in 1912 France by the poet Guillaume Apollinaire. ...

Other American painters experimenting with synchromism included Thomas Hart Benton, Andrew Dasburg, and Patrick Henry Bruce. Thomas Hart Benton is a name shared by the following American men: Thomas Hart Benton (senator) (1782-1858) Thomas Hart Benton (painter) (1889-1975) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...