Airplane Synchromy in Yellow-Orange
Image source: en.wikipedia.org

Airplane Synchromy in Yellow-Orange

Support Type: Canvas
Paint Type: Oil Paint
Current Location: metropolitan museum of art (not on view)

The painting is a fractured, kaleidoscopic composition built from wedges of yellow, orange, and warm tones. the colored fragments and patterns form a view of rooftops as if seen from an airplane, while a turning propeller and a detail of the plane's engine complete this tribute to modern travel. So it's not pure abstraction as there's a legible subject hiding in the color-geometry. an aerial view fused with the machine itself (propeller, engine parts, per one description even a suggestion of the pilot), all interlocking like a musical chord progression rather than a single fixed viewpoint. MacDonald-Wright drew on ideas similar to Kandinsky's synesthetic approach to painting-as-music, combined with Cubism's fractured forms and Futurism's focus on movement and technology. the painting feels itself frozen in time, like too futuristic for the past, and too primitive for the future. the white colour almost gives the technology a divine like appearence like a swan coming out of heaven. it achieves a quality very hard to put in words. almost like a altruistic world with divine technology, and a positive attitude towards technology, which is missing from the modern world.

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Description Sources: americainclass.org
Location source: metmuseum.org
Information Compiled by Raunaq singh
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