Synchromy
(ˈsɪŋkrəmɪ)
Also synchromy.
[f. as prec. + -y3, after symphony.]
An abstract painting of a type characteristic of Synchromism.
| 1916 Forum Feb. 213 Why not hang a Pre-Raphaelite-Moreau work of Claude Buck beside an ultra-modern Synchromy. 1936 Cubism & Abstract Art (N.Y. Mus. Mod. Art) 74 The first purely abstract ‘Synchromy’ was not shown until the exhibition in Paris in the autumn of that year [sc. 1913]. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia IX. 737/3 The two artists were living in Paris, painting abstract works they called ‘synchromies’. |