Colors of Sound.
The Los Angeles County Museum Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, Calif. The original museum opened in 1913. Among its important patrons was William Randolph Hearst, whose enormous collection brought the museum major status among the country's art houses. The museum's collections include European, Asian, and American painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts. It also has an extensive collection of mosaics. The museum buildings on Wilshire Boulevard (1965) were designed by W. L. of Art serves up the first in-depth retrospective of modernist master Stanton Macdonald-Wright. Early in his career, Macdonald-Wright became convinced that color and sound were equivalent phenomena and that painters could orchestrate colors in a painting the way a composer arranges notes and chords in music. He developed a system of painting based on color scales, which was later dubbed Synchromism. The exhibition, which includes more than 60 works spanning six decades, runs through October 28.
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