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) published in 1918.
Post World War I
thumb|right|Le Corbusier, 1921, Nature morte (Still Life), oil on canvas, 54 x 81 cm, [[Musée National d'Art Moderne]]
Le Corbusier and Ozenfant were the creators of Purism. Fernand Léger was a principal associate.
Purist Manifesto
The Purist Manifesto lays out the rules Ozenfant and Le Corbusier created to govern the Purist movement.