Fauvism
- a word derived from Fauve.
Example Sentences
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Fauvism soon faded, but color—bold, brilliant hues—remained among his hallmarks as he grew to become one of the 20th century’s greatest artists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Picasso was stirred by symbolism, Fauvism and the stylistic innovations of, among others, El Greco, Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres and Paul Cézanne.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2018
Not unlike Jean-Luc Godard and Jacques Demy with cinema’s Nouvelle Vague or Matisse and Derain with Fauvism, Diddy’s Bad Boy milieu of ghetto-fabulous grew into a global movement.
From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2017
An air of catch-up marks his derivations, from such styles as Henri Matisse’s Fauvism and Kandinsky’s proto-abstraction.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 19, 2017
And yet the ballet was intensely modern; always you were aware that Derain had been right through the movement—through Fauvism, Negroism, Cubism.
From Since Cézanne by Bell, Clive
