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It emerged at the same time as Fauvism in painting and lasted a year longer than Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, which dazzled audiences with ravishing, often exotic visions, sets and costumes ablaze in jewel tones.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

If you ever took an art history survey in college, you may recall the blur of Fauvism.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2023

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

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