When the Purist artists Ozenfant and Le Corbusier appealed for a "return to order" in art they wished to impose precision on artistic form, constructing works of art with their own calculated equilibrium and intellectual balance, ...
A motto popular among traditionalists was "the return to order." For Picasso the years 1920 to 1925 were marked by close attention to three-dimensional form and to classical themes: bathers, centaurs (mythical creatures half-man and half horse), ...
Compared to the verists, the classicists more clearly exemplify the "return to order" that arose in the arts throughout Europe. The classicists included Georg Schrimpf, Alexander Kanoldt, Carlo Mense, Heinrich Maria Davringhausen, and Wilhelm Heise.
produced only one war picture and was killed in 1916. Severini painted some significant war pictures in 1915 (e.g. War, Armored Train, and Red Cross Train), but in Paris turned towards Cubism and post-war was associated with the Return to Order.
 See also: Painting, Movement, Expression, Classic, Cubism
  
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