STANTON MACDONALD-WRIGHT'S LIFE AND ART TOPIC OF TALK AT LIBRARY

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date:       May 25, 2006
Contact:  Susan Annett, Principal Librarian, Public Services, (310) 458-8640

Dr. Will South presents “Color, Myth, and Music: An Overview of the Life and Art of Stanton Macdonald-Wright” on Wednesday, June 7 at 7 p.m. in the Santa Monica Public Library’s Martin Luther King Jr. Auditorium, 601 Santa Monica Blvd.

Raised in Santa Monica, Stanton Macdonald-Wright (1890–1973) was a pioneer of American and European modernism. A revolutionary figure, he helped establish the provocative theory of Synchromism, which understood art primarily as an intense experience with color. Macdonald-Wright’s works reflect many of the other major art movements of the 20th century, and his poetic synthesis of East and West, spurred by his interest in Eastern philosophies and the art of Japan and China, mark him as a prophet of a global culture.

This slide-lecture by Dr. South, who is Curator of Collections at the Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a leading expert on Stanton Macdonald-Wright, provides an overview of this artist’s fascinating life and of his importance in the history of American Art, with a special focus on the WPA murals recently reinstalled in the Santa Monica Public Library’s new Main Library.

For more information on this free public program, call (310) 458-8600, or visit www.smpl.org.

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