Fauvism
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Fauvism is a noun meaning An artistic movement of the first decade of the 20th century which emphasized spontaneity and the use of extremely bright colors.
Meaning
An artistic movement of the first decade of the 20th century which emphasized spontaneity and the use of extremely bright colors.
Example Sentences
Paris had been the birthplace of the Modernist sensibility during the latter half of the previous century, when its cafés, studios and tolerant atmosphere helped nurture the symbolist school in poetry and impressionism in painting. By the start of the First World War, it had sheltered fauvism, cubism, expressionism, vorticism, and a host of other splinter movements through which the emerging culture gradually took shape.
Related Words
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