Word: purism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Self - exiled from France, Oxenfant transferred his widely known schools of London and Parts to New York in 1938. Famed as the creator of the Purism movement in modern art, he has exhibited regularly in Paris and other centers since 1910. In France he founded the review "L'Elan" and, in collaboration with Le Corbusier, the famous French architect, he published the review "L'Esprit Nouveau," beginning in 1920. The latter had important influence on the development of modern...
Rayonism, Machinism, Suprematism, Constructivism, Purism, Concretionism-by the 19205 there were so many isms that the artists themselves got mixed up. Because these later isms had one thing in common-a lack or near-lack of recognizable realistic subject matter-one word survived to describe them: Abstractionism...