Crossword clues for fauvist
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
movement in painting associated with Henri Matisse, 1915, from French fauve, "wild beast," a term applied in contempt to these painters by French art critic Louis Vauxcelles at Autumn Salon of 1905. The movement was a reaction against impressionism, featuring vivid use of colors. French fauve (12c.) in Old French meant "fawn-colored horse, dark-colored thing, dull," and is from Frankish *falw- or some other Germanic source, cognate with German falb "dun, pale yellowish-brown" and English fallow "brownish-yellow." Related: Fauvism (1912).
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to fauvism n. An artist who used this style
WordNet
n. a member of a group of French painters who followed Fauvism [syn: Fauve]
Usage examples of "fauvist".
A Fauvist dedicated to improbable color might have imagined a landscape this way, especially once sky and ground took on a reddish bloom and the swollen trunks of elderly oaks became so black they began to look blue.
Unlike all the others, it was a charcoal sketch, almost Fauvist in its primitive vitality.
All east-facing walls were great blocks of Fauvist color, their glaze mosaics stunning, hard to look at directly.
Professor Mills talked about Joyden and Smith and the influence of the Fauvists, their bold style and use of brilliant colour.
Her color vision surged under the impact of the chrom-otropics lacing her cigarette, and the little city below her became quite stunning, a Fauvist fantasia.