Word: synchromist
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...despite all the hollering he and his admirers produced about down-home values and art for the common man, he was no kind of naif. He had studied in Paris before World War I and was closely tied to the expatriate avant-garde there, especially Stanton Macdonald-Wright, whose "synchromist" abstractions were among the most advanced experiments being done by any American painter. In New York in the early '20s, Benton dressed (as one of his friends would remark) like "the antithesis of everything American," and had a peripheral relationship to Alfred Stieglitz and the circle of his 291 gallery...
...such assorted characters as Boccaccio, Gautama Buddha, Mayor Carter of Santa Monica, Adam & Eve, Cinemactress Gloria Stuart, Bach, Michael Faraday, Senator John P. Jones, Leo Carrillo, Michelangelo, Confucius, and Viola Player Samuel Lifschey. All this was the effort of Stanton Macdonald Wright, co-founder 22 years ago of the Synchromist movement in art, to wind Man's Imaginative and Inventive Development round four walls and over an information desk...
...Morgan Russell. In 1913 he, with Artist Russell, invented a new art movement called "Synchromism" which was apparently another effort to create illusion through the use of color alone. Same year, wearing a long white robe, sandals, a flowing beard and a jade necklace, he held his first Synchromist exhibition in Munich. Artist Wright is still a Synchromist but does not talk about it much. At present he is more interested in a new process of color photography which he calls "Synchrome...
...Synchromist Wright returned to the U. S. Four years of New York nearly killed him. A nervous wreck, he went back to Santa Monica on crutches where he cured himself with the climate and a sober study of Buddhism. For many years director of the Santa Monica Community Theatre and the Los Angeles Art Students' League, he gradually gave up beard, long hair and artistic mannerisms, adopted a hard, exact manner of drawing that showed a strong Oriental influence...
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