Fauvist
- a word derived from Fauve.
Example Sentences
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Jawlensky, with a Fauvist portrait, and Werefkin, with a moody landscape, are here, too, as is Münter’s Blue Rider colleague Franz Marc.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026
Especially in geometric-patterned textiles, the artists wove the vivid colors and stripped-down forms of Postimpressionist, Cubist and Fauvist artworks into urbane, sophisticated yard goods.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
A glance at the colors in the reconstructed work, and you might mistake Klimt for his Fauvist contemporaries or think he was hanging around with the painter Marc Chagall.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2021
Some remind me of the Fauvist paintings, while others feel cubist and still others are straight-up dada.
From The Guardian ● May 8, 2020
Neither Cubist nor Fauvist, his paintings exist on a continuum between Puvis de Chavannes and Balthus, who surely must have been influenced by them.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2010
