Usually means: Bold color, wild, expressive painting.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word fauvism:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. fauvism: Merriam-Webster
  2. Fauvism, fauvism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fauvism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Fauvism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fauvism: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fauvism, fauvism: Wordnik
  7. fauvism: Wiktionary
  8. fauvism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. fauvism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. fauvism: Dictionary.com
  11. Fauvism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. fauvism: Rhymezone
  13. fauvism: FreeDictionary.org
  14. fauvism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. fauvism: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. fauvism: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fauvism: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fauvism: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fauvism)

▸ noun:  An artistic movement of the first decade of the 20th century which emphasized spontaneity and the use of extremely bright colors.

Similar:
fauve, futurism, field painting, fard, fandango, Feuillantism, color field, fuchsia, frescoing, futurist, more...

Opposite:
realism, naturalism, classicism

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Similar:
fauve, futurism, field painting, fard, fandango, Feuillantism, color field, fuchsia, frescoing, futurist, more...

Opposite:
realism, naturalism, classicism



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