fauvism

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The painting shocked the art world when it went on display that fall in Paris and launched a new movement called fauvism, from the French word for wild.

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  1. noun An early-20th-century movement in painting begun by a group of French artists and marked by the use of bold, often distorted forms and vivid colors.

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  • The painting shocked the art world when it went on display that fall in Paris and launched a new movement called fauvism, from the French word for wild. —  Sunjournal - Connecting you with your Community
  • UPA embraces modern art, cubism, fauvism, expressionism, surrealism, more mature themes and satire, original music, and offbeat content. —  Film of the Year
 

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  1. French fauvisme, from fauve, wild animal, from fauve, wild, reddish-yellow, from Old French falve, reddish-yellow, from Frankish *falw-; see pel-1 in Indo-European roots.
 

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