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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

Stanton Macdonald-Wright

Stanton Macdonald-Wright

Born: July 8, 1890

Died: August 22, 1973 (aged 83)

Bio: 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.

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