He later founded his own atelier, l ’ Académie Ozenfant, in the residence and studio that Le Corbusier had designed for him.

He moved to London in 1936, where he set up the Ozenfant Academy of Fine Arts in May of that year, before moving to New York some two years later.

In 1915, in collaboration with Max Jacob and Guillaume Apollinaire, Ozenfant founded the magazine L ’ Elan, which he edited until 1916, and his theories of Purism began to develop.

His preference for clarity and order influenced the Purist style of Amédée Ozenfant and Charles Edouard Jeanneret ( Le Corbusier ), and made Gris an important exemplar of the post-war " return to order " movement.

In 1918, Le Corbusier met the Cubist painter Amédée Ozenfant, in whom he recognised a kindred spirit.

Ozenfant and Le Corbusier established the Purist journal L ' Esprit nouveau.

However, the linking of basic geometric forms with inherent beauty and ease of industrial application — which had been prefigured by Marcel Duchamp from 1914 — was left to the founders of Purism, Amédée Ozenfant and Charles-Édouard Jeanneret ( better known as Le Corbusier ,) who exhibited paintings together in Paris and published Après le cubisme in 1918.

Amédée Ozenfant ( 15 April 1886 – 4 May 1966 ) was a French cubist painter.

Its publication coincided with the first Purist exhibition, held at the Galerie Thomas in Paris in 1917, in which Ozenfant exhibited.

A second Purist exhibition was held at the Galerie Druet, Paris, in 1921 in which Ozenfant again exhibited.

Ozenfant and Le Corbusier wrote La Peinture moderne in 1925 and in 1928 Ozenfant published Art.

However, by the time he was in England, Ozenfant had refined his ideas about colour and outlined many of these in the six articles on the subject that he wrote for the Architectural Review.

Ozenfant ’ s revised thoughts on the importance of colour were partly due to the influence of the artist Paul Signac and his theories on Divisionism.

It was an extension of this technique that was recommended by Ozenfant for achieving “ colour solidity ” in architecture, altering colours visually by contrast to create the illusion of solidity.

In 1937 Ozenfant had said: I believe that an immense service would be done to architects, decorators, house-painters etc., if a chart especially adapted to their particular requirements were established.

Ozenfant ’ s articles on colour were read with interest, particularly by :… the students at the Architectural Association ( AA ), for example, but even for David Medd, a student at the AA who later authored the color standards for British schools, Ozenfant had already gone to the United States by the time he inquired about the course at the Academy.

The Ozenfant School of Fine Arts in New York was in operation from 1939 until 1955.

Ozenfant also taught and lectured widely in the United States until 1955, when he returned to France.

The Guggenheim Museum ( New York City ), the Hermitage Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, Kunstmuseum Basel ( Switzerland ), the Louvre, the Museum of Modern Art ( New York City ), Muzeum Sztuki ( Lodz, Poland ), the National Gallery of Australia ( Canberra ), the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Gallery ( London ) and the Walker Art Center ( Minnesota ) are among the public collections holding works by Amédée Ozenfant.

In 1924 Gleizes, Léger and Amédée Ozenfant opened Académie Moderne.

In 1944, he was granted the Premio Nacional de Pintura (" National Prize of Painting "), receiving a great homage with participation by Pablo Picasso, Gregorio Marañón, Pablo Neruda, Lipschitz, Braque, and Ozenfant.

Amedee Ozenfant was the creator ( along with Jeanneret ) of Purism.

The name encouraged him, because he always felt that he could handle the Irish.

Even so, Gannett judiciously argued, the Association could legitimately decide that Parker `` should not be encouraged nor assisted in diffusing his opinions by those who differ from him in regard to their correctness ''.

He was left in the hands of reactionary boyars and priests, who encouraged him to hate his father and wish for the death of the Tsar.

He was believed to have arranged the poisoning of Alexios II's elder sister Maria the Porphyrogenita and her husband Renier of Montferrat, although Maria herself had encouraged him to intervene.

* Lauder College ( named after his uncle who encouraged him to get an education ) in the Halbeth area of Dunfermline was renamed Carnegie College in 2007.

") Judge has stated he got the idea for the name " Butt-Head " from two people he knew during his childhood called " Iron Butt " ( who encouraged people to kick him in the butt to demonstrate his strength ) and " Head-Butt.

A slight success over Octavian's tired soldiers encouraged him to make a general attack, in which he was decisively beaten.

Cézanne ’ s work had been mocked at the time by the others in the school, and, writes Rewald, in his later years Cézanne " never forgot the sympathy and understanding with which Pissarro encouraged him.

Bill Elliott bowed out of the running and encouraged the same fans that had put him up for the prestigious award 16 times to vote for the Man in Black.

He returned to college after serving nearly four years in the army, this time attending Mills College and studying under Darius Milhaud, who encouraged him to study fugue and orchestration, but not classical piano.

He was never officially a student at the institute, nonetheless, the instructor encouraged him to continue learning.

Sullivan had a healthy sense of humor about himself and permitted — even encouraged — impersonators such as John Byner, Frank Gorshin, Rich Little and especially Will Jordan to imitate him on his show.

On 4 December he was shocked that Cecil, who had encouraged him to undertake the Danvers suit on the Crown's behalf, had now withdrawn his support for it.

Fermi's interest in physics was further encouraged by Adolfo Amidei, a friend of his father, who gave him several books on physics and mathematics, which he read and assimilated quickly.

However, RCA refused to pay him royalties and encouraged other television makers not to pay them either.

But he was precocious and Mr Wallington at Baling encouraged him to publish, at the age of fifteen, an immature work, Ishmael and Other Poems.

Crick felt that this attitude encouraged him to be more daring than typical biologists who tended to concern themselves with the daunting problems of biology and not the past successes of physics.

He withdrew from the film and encouraged Fred Astaire to come out of retirement to replace him.

In 1955 Clokey showed Gumbasia to movie producer Sam Engel, who encouraged him to develop his technique by adding figures.

They encouraged George to continue his intellectual pursuits, and " Aunt Susan " taught him the basics of reading and writing.

His art teacher, Etta Budd, recognized Carver's talent for painting flowers and plants ; she encouraged him to study botany at Iowa State Agricultural College in Ames.

Greenberg befriended Robinson and encouraged him ; they became good friends and Robinson credited Greenberg with being a good influence helping him through his rookie year.

Heinrich's later interest in history was initially encouraged by his father, who had schooled him in the tales of the Iliad and the Odyssey and had given him a copy of Ludwig Jerrer's Illustrated History of the World for Christmas in 1829.