Fauvism
- a word derived from Fauve.
Example Sentences
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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
Fauvism would become the first major avant-garde movement of the 20th century.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2021
Like a number of her peers — including Heidi Howard, Sanya Kantarovsky and Ga Hee Park — Ms. Hughes draws heavily from the fin de siècle traditions of Art Nouveau, Fauvism and German Expressionism.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 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
