Spring Synchromy
Spring Synchromy
Artist
Stanton Macdonald-Wright
(1890 - 1973)
Date1918
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions50 1/2 x 36 3/4 in. (128.3 x 93.3 cm)
Framed: 52 1/2 × 38 1/4 × 1 7/8 in.
Framed: 52 1/2 × 38 1/4 × 1 7/8 in.
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineAlfred Stieglitz Collection, Co-owned by Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
Accession number
ASC.2012.71
On View
Not on viewCollections
Label TextStanton Macdonald-Wright co-founded the art movement “Synchromism” in 1912. He based his Synchromist paintings on color “scales” that were similar to musical scales. Macdonald-Wright mimicked sequences of musical chords by arranging brilliant, jewel-like pigments in staggered blocks and prismatic shapes.
Stanton Macdonald-Wright fue cofundador del movimiento artístico denominado “sincromismo” en 1912. Basaba sus obras sincromistas en “escalas” de color similares a las musicales. Macdonald-Wright imitaba secuencias de acordes musicales disponiendo pigmentos brillantes, como joyas, en bloques escalonados y formas prismáticas.
