Steve Martin Discusses Abstract Art in MoMA's 'The Way I See It' Video Series

In a new episode of MoMA's 'The Way I See It' video series, actor and comedian Steve Martin offers his perspective on two abstract paintings by Morgan Russell and Stanton Macdonald Wright, founders of the Synchromism movement. The series features short videos where celebrities share their views on artworks at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, also available as a BBC podcast. Martin, joined by MoMA curator Ann Temkin in one of the museum's galleries, discusses how abstract art evokes different sensations and ideas. He remarks that he enjoys looking at the painting for a long time because it contains many parts that come together as a whole, and that images reveal themselves over time rather than being fully understood in a single glance. Synchromism, a non-figurative art movement that began in the United States in 1913, is aesthetically close to contemporary European experiments by artists like Robert Delaunay and Frantisek Kupka.