Stanton Macdonald-Wright

Saw below at the NCMA recently. As a young painter in Paris, Macdonald-Wright helped found a short-lived but influential art movement called synchromism, which proposed an abstract art based upon a musical/mystical interpretation of color. Returning from Europe, he eventually settled in Southern California, where he became an impassioned advocate for modern art. As exemplified by this painting, Macdonald-Wright’s late style is far more lyrical than the bolder paintings of his youth. One can attribute this gentleness at least in part to the artist’s devotion to Taoism, Buddhism, and Japanese art.
Even the title alludes to a Zen-like concern for the beauty of the ephemeral.

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