Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An early 20th-century movement in painting begun by a group of French artists and marked by the use of bold, often distorted forms and vivid colors.
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- noun An artistic movement of the last part of the 19th century which emphasized spontaneity and the use of extremely bright colors.
Etymologies
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The painting shocked the art world when it went on display that fall in Paris and launched a new movement called fauvism, from the French word for wild.
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The painting shocked the art world when it went on display that fall in Paris and launched a new movement called fauvism, from the French word for wild.
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The "fauvism" effect we chose had a funky-but-fun effect that used bold colors and lines.
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He was already anticipating the demise of cubism, futurism and fauvism though the latter in particular has a strong influence on his painting here.
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"Normandie Impressionniste" traces how such artists as Monet, Pissarro, Degas, Cassatt and Sisley developed their unique approach to painting and, in so doing, cleared the way for art of the twentieth century from pointillism to fauvism, from cubism to abstract expressionism.
Denise Dennis: Normandy: Birthplace of Impressionism Celebrated this Summer 2010
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In 1963, Dufy's widow donated seventy of his works -- from his impressionist and fauvism periods to the end of his life -- to the Museum of Le Havre, now the Malraux Museum.
Denise Dennis: Normandy Impressionist Festival: Andre Malraux Museum at Le Havre 2010
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"Normandie Impressionniste" traces how such artists as Monet, Pissarro, Degas, Cassatt and Sisley developed their unique approach to painting and, in so doing, cleared the way for art of the twentieth century from pointillism to fauvism, from cubism to abstract expressionism.
Denise Dennis: Normandy: Birthplace of Impressionism Celebrated this Summer Denise Dennis 2010
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What he invented-with a little help from Andre Derain-in the summer of 1905 was fauvism: an emotion-charged method of separated brushstrokes in floral colors.
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After coffee and candied cashews, the group retired to the screening room for Mr. Adams and Mr. Bolton's PowerPoint presentation on fauvism, the Ballet Russes and how wild-animal art influenced fashion and Cartier.
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Below, the photo gets the fauvism treatment by PhotoArtomation. com.
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"An early-20th-century movement in painting begun by a group of French artists and marked by the use of bold, often distorted forms and vivid colors." AHD
The wild beasts.
March 17, 2008