Mcdonald-Wright Research Paper
In the past 100 years music has played a tremendously important role in the stylistic development of visual art. It has created impetus and inspiration for those artists wishing to produce a pure and transcendental art form.Many artists have discovered unconventional techniques in their art-making approach.Morgan Russell and Stanton Macdonald-Wright are the two influential forces in furthering the connection between music and art.
in 1911 Kandinsky attempted to put order to tonal colors. In his famed 1912 essay Concerning the Spiritual in Art he explained how he associated certain colors with particular instruments. For example: yellow was linked with the sound of the trumpet, red with the tuba or kettle drum and blue with the cello, contrabass …show more content…
Interested in the psychological effects of color and sound they developed the method of color composition based on what they termed color chords derived from the color wheel. Russell has been credited for inventing synchromism, meaning “with color”. It was chosen as an analogy to the musical term symphony to denote his emphasis on color rhythms. The Synchromists’ first exhibited in Munich in June 1913, with artwork that was controversial because of its abstract and ephemeral nature.1
According to Russell, color was light and the color rhythms that they produced unfolded before the viewer giving their paintings the fourth dimension of time. Russell emphasized rhythm, “the palpitation or undulation …” over the subject of the painting.8 In his painting, Synchromy (about 1925) we see a three-dimensional quality, which equates with the theory that color should express form. This structural solidity might have stemmed also from Russell’s training in …show more content…
Christie’s imagery was inspired by a statement he read in the programme notes for the San Francisco Polyphony. In describing his music Legeti referred to the interplay between chaos and organization and likened it to throwing a lot of things into a drawer. Even though the things in the drawer are in disarray, the drawer itself is a well-defined form. Christie’s image includes a newspaper clipping of the composer next to what might be described as a chaotic musical
in 1911 Kandinsky attempted to put order to tonal colors. In his famed 1912 essay Concerning the Spiritual in Art he explained how he associated certain colors with particular instruments. For example: yellow was linked with the sound of the trumpet, red with the tuba or kettle drum and blue with the cello, contrabass …show more content…
Interested in the psychological effects of color and sound they developed the method of color composition based on what they termed color chords derived from the color wheel. Russell has been credited for inventing synchromism, meaning “with color”. It was chosen as an analogy to the musical term symphony to denote his emphasis on color rhythms. The Synchromists’ first exhibited in Munich in June 1913, with artwork that was controversial because of its abstract and ephemeral nature.1
According to Russell, color was light and the color rhythms that they produced unfolded before the viewer giving their paintings the fourth dimension of time. Russell emphasized rhythm, “the palpitation or undulation …” over the subject of the painting.8 In his painting, Synchromy (about 1925) we see a three-dimensional quality, which equates with the theory that color should express form. This structural solidity might have stemmed also from Russell’s training in …show more content…
Christie’s imagery was inspired by a statement he read in the programme notes for the San Francisco Polyphony. In describing his music Legeti referred to the interplay between chaos and organization and likened it to throwing a lot of things into a drawer. Even though the things in the drawer are in disarray, the drawer itself is a well-defined form. Christie’s image includes a newspaper clipping of the composer next to what might be described as a chaotic musical