Synchronism:
Synchronism was founded in 1912 by artists Stanton MacDonald-Wright and Morgan Russell. Their paintings were some of the first abstract paintings in America as well as it being the first Avant guard to receive international attention; synchronism is the idea of using colour to visualise sound or music.
Synchronism uses the personal visualisation of what someone believes music to look like, depending on what kind of music it is and what emotions it is trying to evoke; through the use of bright colours and patterns the artists can create a harmonious mix between the sound of music and the visuals of painting; and although the paintings are abstract the shapes and movement of the painting still try to put across the complex emotion that the music portrays.
Stanton MacDonald-Wright dismissed speculation that Synchronism was related or even based off of Orphism saying that, "it has nothing to do with orphism and anybody who has read the first catalogue of synchronism ... would realize that we poked fun at Orphism". Fauvism has similarities to the earliest Synchronism paintings.
Historical Information, pictures and quotes; Wikipedia's page on Synchronism. (n.d.). Retrieved from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchromism
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