Ozenfant
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Williams Speaking of art, we wanted to take you to see the mosaic at 240 Central Park South by Ozenfant.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2020
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 Ozenfant, modern painting began with Cezanne, who "broke away from nature."
From Time Magazine Archive
His early work, in the 1920s, was mainly exercises in late Cubism -- the "tubist," streamlined, geometrical forms of Fernand Leger and Amedee Ozenfant, shapes that might have been made from metal.
From Time Magazine Archive
Imitation cannot reproduce nature, says Ozenfant, but equivalents can; a composer of music does not try to capture nature by imitating animal sounds, but by writing a pastoral symphony.
From Time Magazine Archive
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