Purism, referring to the arts, was a movement that took place between 1918-1925 that influenced French painting and architecture. Purism was led by Amedee Ozenfant and Charles Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier).
Purism
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Purism
(1918-1925)
Purism was another movement interested in a kind of utopian vision of art and the modern world. Purism was comprised of only two artists: Amédée Ozenfant and Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier).
Art History: Purism: (1918 - 1925)
French artists Amedee Ozenfant and Le Corbusier developed Purism in 1918 as a reaction to Cubism.
Purism - 1918
Le Corbusier
Amedee Ozentant
Artists Groups 1918-1919
Arbeitsrat fur Kunst - Association of German architects, artists, 1918
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Purism (c. 1918): painting, works on paper. Purism refers to the art movement established around 1918 in France by Amédée Ozenfant and Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, who believed in the power of art to change the world.
Purism
Art movement founded around 1915 which attempted to reform the later, more decorative, phase of Cubism by returning to simple, extremely generalised basic forms.
Related to purism and De Stijl in painting, it joined structure and exterior design into a noneclectic form based on rectangular geometry and growing out of the basic function and structure of the building.
Cubism had run its course by the end of World War I, but among the movements directly influenced by it were Orphism, Precisionism, Futurism, Purism, Constructivism, and, to some degree, Expressionism.
Chronological Listing of Cubists ...
The Rococo movement was initially restricted to France, later spreading to all of Europe and above all to Germany. The movement continued to develop until the arrival of Neoclassicism which attempted to return to the purism of classical antiquity.
(See also Russian art.) Short-lived but highly influential, Cubism instigated a whole new style of abstract art and had a significant impact the development of later styles such as: Orphism (1910-13), Collage (1912 onwards), Purism (1920s), ...
 See also: Movement, Painting, Cubism, Expression, Aesthetic
  
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