Definitions
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
fauvism - noun An
artist who used this style
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a member of a group of French painters who followed fauvism
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Examples
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The exhibit features a dozen of Singh's emotionally upbeat, "fauvist" paintings.
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The exhibit features a dozen of Singh's emotionally upbeat, "fauvist" paintings.
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From there it is a short drive to Spain, but please don't miss Collioure collioure.com, just before the border, a favourite haunt of the fauvist artists and famous for its anchovies.
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Artist James Barnett has created a series of well-executed "fauxvist" oil paintings (from the French fauvist) that look like something you might encounter in any fine gallery.
Dan Gould: Fauxvism: Landscape Paintings From Video Games 2010
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She smiled and her attention was caught by a striking painting of calla lilies down in the fauvist style in bright colors.
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She smiled and her attention was caught by a striking painting of calla lilies down in the fauvist style in bright colors.
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I call him a painter; Wikipedia calls him a “fauvist painter and sculpter.”
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There follows the entire Wikipedia entry for Rik Wouters: “Rik Wouters (August 21, 1882, Mechelen — July 11, 1916, Amsterdam) was a Belgian fauvist painter and sculptor.”
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She smiles, hm, kind of has a nice fauvist quality to it, Canadian fauve … she nibbles a bit more croissant.
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At that time, Mondrian himself had progressed from delicately gray river scenes to flattened, fauvist paintings of dunes by the sea.
When Less Was More 2008
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