20th century in the arts

thumb|upright=1.15|Pablo Picasso, 1910, Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier), oil on canvas, 100.3 × 73.6 cm, [[Museum of Modern Art, New York]]

international philosophy and style of art, architecture and applied art

influential visual arts design style which first appeared in France during the 1920s

thumb|200px|Le Corbusier, 1922, Nature morte verticale (Vertical Still Life), oil on canvas, , [[Kunstmuseum Basel]] Purism, referring to the arts, was a movement that took place between 1918 and 1925 that influenced French painting and architecture. Purism was led by Amédée Ozenfant and Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier). Ozenfant and Le Corbusier formulated an aesthetic doctrine born from a criticism of Cubism and called it Purism: where objects are represented as elementary forms devoid of detail. The main concepts were presented in their short essay "Après le Cubisme" (After Cubism)