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Stanton MacDonald-Wright , was a modern American artist. He was a co-founder of Synchromism, an early abstract, color-based mode of painting, which was the first American avant-garde art movement to receive international attention. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. July 1890 – 22. August 1973
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Stanton Macdonald-Wright Quotes

“I strive to make my art bear the same relation to painting that polyphony bears to music. Illustrative music is a thing of the past: it has become abstract and purely aesthetic, dependent for its effect upon rhythm and form.”

Stanton Macdonald-Wright

Quoted in Bryant American Pictures And Their Painters (1917), p. 302

Art , Music , Past , Painting

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