Word: purism
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...they did not know Ozenfant. He is known in Europe as one of the most provocative theoreticians of modern art. Born in Picardy 52 years ago, he began expounding his ideas about it in 1915, later became associated with Modernist Architect Le Corbusier, founded a school of painting called Purism, taught, lectured, wrote books, studied Egyptian, Chinese and Negro art, and raced automobiles until his 40th year, when on a slippery racetrack near Paris, his racer turned over, left him scratched up and convinced that he was too old for that sport...
...McClenahan's attitude with regard to English grammar is the type of blinded, presumptuous pedagogism that should not be tolerated in a Board of Education [TIME, Feb. 26]. For his "purism" the Doctor can doubtless cite any number of authorities-except the language self...
...invention of photography in the last century painters had subconsciously realized that representational art was dead, bested by the camera. And so while many painters insensitive to new influences continued to push painting to the extreme boundaries of realism, Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso and their followers developed abstract expressions, Purism, Cubism, etc. But their theories were based on the assumption that man possesses a sixth sense, the so-called aesthetic sense, which vibrates in response to pure forms, colors, arrangements, proportions, divorced not only from reality, but also impoverished by the elimination of meaning, of literature, history, humanity, tragedy and comedy...
...plea is made in favor of the ladies and gentlemen we invite to our Class-Day celebration. The voice of purism objects that the brutal spectacle of the rush around the tree, and the slobbering, and too often maudlin embraces of the Seniors are less likely to please our friends than to cause them to blush...