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Fauve
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Fauve (French) [fov]
n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Movements) one of a group of French painters prominent from 1905, including Henri Matisse (1869-1954), Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958), and André Derain (1880-1954), characterized by the use of bright colours and simplified forms
adj
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Movements) (often not capital) of this group or its style
[from French, literally: wild beast, alluding to the violence of colours, etc.]
Fauvism  n
Fauvist  n & adj
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Noun1.Fauve - a member of a group of French painters who followed fauvism
fauvist
painter - an artist who paints
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He also helped found Neue Sezession, a German art group, and gained recognition for his decorative and colorful paintings that mimicked the artistic styles of Van Gogh, Matisse and the Fauves.
ART NOTES by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Like Matisse, he was one of the founders of the Fauves, an art movement which liked extreme colours and wild brushwork.
Arts Diary: Riddle of Walker's monthly; The Painting of the Month ... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
I think this passage from Greenberg's essay, with its references to Matisse and the Fauves juxtaposed with an emphasis on Hofmann's characteristic dissonance, tells us almost everything we need to know about the artist's qualities.
Seldom-Cited Master Hans Hofmann Returns To Reacquaint Viewers by The New York Observer / The New York Observer
 
 
 
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