1913 (ca.), Morgan Russell, Sketch for Synchromy in Blue-Violet -- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
From the museum label: While studying in Paris in the early 1910s, Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Morgan Russell developed Synchromism (meaning "with color"), an approach to painting that asserted the primacy of color in the creation of form, and that equated chromatic relationships with musical harmonies. In both Synchromy in Purple (on the right) and Sketch for Synchromy in Blue-Violet (on the left), a symphony of jewel-like hues plays across the pictorial field. While Russell's paintings typically comprise entirely abstract planes of pigment, Macdonald-Wright preferred to base his compositions on the figure. In Synchromy in Purple, rainbow-like arcs define a muscular body that pushes against the edges of the canvas.
1913 (ca.), Morgan Russell, Sketch for Synchromy in Blue-Violet -- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
From the museum label: While studying in Paris in the early 1910s, Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Morgan Russell developed Synchromism (meaning "with color"), an approach to painting that asserted the primacy of color in the creation of form, and that equated chromatic relationships with musical harmonies. In both Synchromy in Purple (on the right) and Sketch for Synchromy in Blue-Violet (on the left), a symphony of jewel-like hues plays across the pictorial field. While Russell's paintings typically comprise entirely abstract planes of pigment, Macdonald-Wright preferred to base his compositions on the figure. In Synchromy in Purple, rainbow-like arcs define a muscular body that pushes against the edges of the canvas.