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Born April 15, 1886 • Saint-Quentin • France
Died May 4, 1966 (aged 80) • Cannes • France
Movement / Style Purism
Subjects Of Study Purism • modern art

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Amédée Ozenfant
Still Life, Dishes
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Wassily Kandinsky: Painting with Green Center
Wassily Kandinsky
Russian-born artist
Sérusier, Paul: The Flowered Gate
Paul Sérusier
French painter
Paul Signac
Paul Signac
French painter
Coypel, Charles-Antoine: Painting Ejecting Thalia
Charles-Antoine Coypel
French artist
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André Lhote
French artist
James McNeill Whistler
James McNeill Whistler
American artist
Elaine and Willem de Kooning
Elaine de Kooning
American artist
Tower of the Rising Clouds, colour on silk by Mi Fu; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Mi Fu
Chinese artist
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Harold Rosenberg
American art critic
Enwezor, Okwui
Okwui Enwezor
Nigerian-born art curator
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari
Italian artist and author
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Dong Qichang
Chinese artist
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Roger Fry
British art critic and painter
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Chen Shizeng
Chinese painter and critic
Theo van Doesburg: Counter-Composition V
Theo van Doesburg
Dutch artist
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Giovanni Morelli
Italian art critic
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Benjamin Robert Haydon
English painter and writer
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Clive Bell
British critic
La Farge, John: Flowers on a Japanese Tray on a Mahogany Table
John La Farge
American painter
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Ad Reinhardt
American artist

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