1) An instance of this 2) Art movement 3) Art movement in Europe 4) Aversion to slang 5) Chaste pursuit 6) French art movement 7) Insistence on chasteness 8) Observance of correctness 9) Rigid adherence 10) Rigid insistence on nicety 11) Straight quality 12) Strict interpretation 13) Strict linguistic correctness
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Purism, referring to the arts, was a movement that took place between 1918–1925 that influenced French painting and architecture. Purism was led by Amédée Ozenfant and Charles Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier). Ozenfant and Le Corbusier created a variation of Cubist movement and called it Purism. ==Amédée Ozenfant== Amédée Ozenfant was the ...
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• (n.) Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity.
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in painting, a variant of Cubism developed in France about 1918 by the painter Amédée Ozenfant and the architect and painter Le Corbusier ... [4 related articles]
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Pur'ism noun [ Confer French
purisme .] Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity. 'His political
purism .'
De Quincey. « The English language, however, . . . had even already become too thoro...
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Movement founded by Edouard Jeanneret (better known as the modern architect Le Corbusier) and Amédée Ozenfant. They set out the theory of Purism in their book Après le Cubisme (After Cubism) published in 1918. They criticised the fragmentation of the object in Cubism and the way in which Cubism had become, in their view, decorative by that time....
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noun scrupulous or exaggerated insistence on purity or correctness (especially in language); `linguistic purisms`
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Taste tending towards archaistic and simplified form, prevailing chiefly at the beginning of the 19th century. -- L.V.
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strict observance of or insistence on purity in language, style, etc. · an instance of this. · (often cap.)a style of art developed in France in the early 20th century, characterized by the use of simple geometric forms and images evocative of objects produced by machine.
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