Synchromism
シンクロミズム / 1912–1918 / Style / Geometric Abstraction
Premier mouvement abstrait né aux États-Unis, qui érigea la couleur elle-même en structure, à l'imitation de l'harmonie musicale. Des plans colorés disposés selon le spectre tournent et engendrent la profondeur ; la forme vient après la couleur. Le titre des œuvres, « Synchromie », symphonie de couleur, tenait lieu de programme.
Plans de couleur ordonnés selon le spectre / Compositions en tourbillon / Profondeur engendrée par la couleur / Titres empruntés au vocabulaire musical
Entrée du dictionnaire
- Usages idéaux
- Colour systems for music platforms, festivals and audio hardware, which need chromatic energy and have no imagery to lean on · Motion graphics in which hue rotation rather than the movement of objects carries depth and rhythm
- Typographie
- A geometric sans in one weight, set small; the title names the piece and the colour does the speaking.
- Composition
- A spiral of overlapping planes around a slightly displaced centre, warm hues advancing and cool receding, with no drawn outline anywhere.
- Matière
- Saturated unmixed pigment at even opacity, so no plane comes forward merely because it is denser than its neighbour.
- Précaution
- Adding a keyline to hold the shapes together: as soon as an outline carries the structure, colour stops doing the work and the whole premise is void.
- Pour approfondir
- The theory of Macdonald-Wright and Russell / The dispute with Orphism over simultaneity / Tables of correspondence between colour and music