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Synchromism|ˈsɪŋkrəmɪz(ə)m|
[f. syn-1 + Gr. χρῶµα colour + -ism.]
A movement in art resembling Orphism, founded by the U.S. painters Stanton Macdonald-Wright (b. 1890) and Morgan Russell (1886–1953), with emphasis on the abstract use of colour. Also, loosely = Orphism 2. Cf. synchronism 4.
1912M. Russell in G. Levin Synchromism & Amer. Color Abstraction 1910–1925 (1978) ii. 20 This is cubisme, Futurisme, Synchromisme and any isms possible for many years, perhaps centuries. 1913Forum Dec. 768 This brings us to the latest phase of this chaotic and polyglot age of painting—Synchromism, sired by two Americans, S. Macdonald-Wright and Morgan Russell, which seems destined to have the most far-reaching effects of any art force since Cézanne. 1923J. Gordon Mod. French Painters xiv. 149 Synchromism, Simultaneism..and so on, are merely various more or less pretentious methods adopted by artists..to say that they are going to do just as they like. 1937T. H. Benton Artist in America ii. 38 My old friend Wright came back to America before the gathering of the war clouds in Europe. He came back, the founder of a new school, synchromism, which he had flung in the face of Paris. 1958M. L. Wolf Dict. Painting 288 Synchromism usually displayed its purposes in pictures of huge size, the colors forming prismatic patterns. 1978G. Levin Synchromism & Amer. Color Abstraction 1910–1925 ii. 20 The fact that the Delaunays had used closely related terminology, possibly at a slightly earlier date, does not, of course, make Synchromism a direct outgrowth of their art.
Hence ˈSynchromist n. and a., Synchroˈmistic a.
1913Forum Dec. 769 The Synchromists claim to have discovered the secrets of color. 1916Ibid. Apr. 461 His later paintings have undergone somewhat the Synchromistic vision. 1923[see simultaneist]. 1936Cubism & Abstract Art (N.Y. Mus. Mod. Art) 74 The first large Synchromist exhibition was held in Munich in June 1913. 1958M. L. Wolf Dict. Painting 202 Known also as the Synchromist School, it [sc. Orphism] was essentially an abstract style. 1970Oxf. Compan. Art 1118/2 Arthur Burdett Frost..helped to spread the ideas of the Synchromists in America. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VI. 439/3 Although he [sc. Macdonald-Wright] denied any connection, his Synchromist theories were also influenced by the contemporary Parisian movement of Orphism. |