Newman’s House
1915
Imagine listening to a jazz record while looking at a quiet suburban street—that is the electric energy Henry Lyman Saÿen captured here. As an American expat in Paris, Saÿen was a key figure in Synchromism, a modernist movement that treated color like musical notes to create rhythm and harmony. Instead of realistic browns and greens, he explodes the scene with clashing oranges, deep blues, and vibrant yellows, turning a simple house into a visual symphony. Interestingly, Saÿen was actually a physicist and inventor before turning to art, which might explain his structured yet explosive approach to color theory.