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单词 Fauvism
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Definition of Fauvism in English:

Fauvism

nounˈfəʊvɪz(ə)mˈfoʊˌvɪzəm
mass noun
  • A style of painting with vivid expressionistic and non-naturalistic use of colour that flourished in Paris from 1905 and, although short-lived, had an important influence on subsequent artists, especially the German expressionists. Matisse was regarded as the movement's leading figure.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He responded to some extent to post-impressionism and symbolism, but he disappointed critics who were coming to terms with cubism, fauvism, surrealism, and abstraction, which he despised.
    • Pre-Columbian art's contribution to modernism fails to fit into the teleologically reconstructed development from post-impressionism, fauvism, and cubism to abstract expressionism.
    • In this respect, visually speaking, the film will be slightly reminiscent of fauvism.
    • With that picture, painted in his sixty-fifth year, he reverts, this time with success, to the fauvism with which he began.
    • His style reminds somewhat of French fauvism or German expressionism.

Derivatives

  • Fauvist

  • noun & adjective
    • It has a good set of beaches, catacombs to explore, and some remarkable fauvist geology.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Add lists of English portrait painters or fauvists.
      • In 1921 he travelled to Paris, where, following a meeting with Picasso, he abandoned the fauvist style that he had previously espoused and began to experiment with cubism.
      • Kirchner's paintings, with their vivid colours and emotional content, paralleled the art of the fauvists.
      • In well-crafted chapters, Blake describes the interaction between primitivism and the fauvists, cubists, dadaists, surrealists, and, lastly, purists.

Origin

French fauvisme, from fauve 'wild beast'. The name originated from a remark of the French art critic Louis Vauxcelles at the Salon of 1905; coming across a quattrocento-style statue in the midst of works by Matisse and his associates, he is reputed to have said, ‘Donatello au milieu des fauves!’ (‘Donatello among the wild beasts’).

Definition of Fauvism in US English:

Fauvism

nounˈfōˌvizəmˈfoʊˌvɪzəm
  • A style of painting with vivid expressionistic and nonnaturalistic use of color that flourished in Paris from 1905 and, although short-lived, had an important influence on subsequent artists, especially the German expressionists. Matisse was regarded as the movement's leading figure.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In this respect, visually speaking, the film will be slightly reminiscent of fauvism.
    • Pre-Columbian art's contribution to modernism fails to fit into the teleologically reconstructed development from post-impressionism, fauvism, and cubism to abstract expressionism.
    • He responded to some extent to post-impressionism and symbolism, but he disappointed critics who were coming to terms with cubism, fauvism, surrealism, and abstraction, which he despised.
    • His style reminds somewhat of French fauvism or German expressionism.
    • With that picture, painted in his sixty-fifth year, he reverts, this time with success, to the fauvism with which he began.

Origin

French fauvisme, from fauve ‘wild beast’. The name originated from a remark of the French art critic Louis Vauxcelles at the Salon of 1905; coming across a quattrocento-style statue in the midst of works by Matisse and his associates, he is reputed to have said, ‘Donatello au milieu des fauves!’ (‘Donatello among the wild beasts’).

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