purism
Example Sentences
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Purism has always been an exception, delighted borrowing the rule.
From The Guardian • Feb. 24, 2011
He did Purism too, further sanitizing the cleaned-up version of Cubism espoused by Le Corbusier and Amédée Ozenfant.
From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2010
To spread their new credo of Purism, Jeanneret and Ozenfant started the magazine L'Esprit nouveau.
From Time Magazine Archive
Futurism, Orphism, Expressionism, Synchronism, Abstract Dadaism, Rayonism, Machinism, Suprematism, Constructivism, Purism, Concretionism�by the 19205 there were so many isms that the artists themselves got mixed up.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is finally to be remembered, therefore, that Purism is always noble when it is instinctive.
From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by Ruskin, John
