-Their abstract "synchromies", based on a theory of color that analogized it to music, were among the first abstract paintings in American art.
-Synchromism became the first American avant-garde art movement to receive international attention.
-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.
-The abstract "synchromies" are based on color scales, using rhythmic color forms with advancing and reducing hues.
-The earliest synchromist works were similar to Fauvist paintings.
-Synchromism was developed by Stanton MacDonald-Wright and Morgan Russell while they were studying in Paris during the early 1910s
-From 1911 to 1913, they studied under the Canadian painter Percyval Tudor-Hart, whose color theory connected qualities of color to qualities of music, such as tone to hue and intensity to saturation
-The first synchromist painting, Russell's Synchromy in Green, exhibited at the Paris Salon des Indépendants in 1913.
- Synchromism remained influential well into the 1920s.
Morgan Russell
Stanton MacDonald-Wright
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