» This article's about an art style. There's also another meaning for purism, namely linguistic purism. Purism was a form of Cubism advocated by the French painter Amédée Ozenfant and the architect Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier). Purism rejected the decorative trend of cubism and advocated a return to clear, ordered forms that were expressive of the modern machine age as documented in their 1918 book After Cubism. Creation The two artists, Jeanneret and Ozenfant, objected… (More on Purism)