Ozenfant

American  

[oh-zahn-fahn] / oʊ zɑ̃ˈfɑ̃ /

noun

1. Amédée 1886–1966, French painter and writer, in the U.S. after 1938.

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Example Sentences

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

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

To spread their new credo of Purism, Jeanneret and Ozenfant started the magazine L'Esprit nouveau.

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