FAUVISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fauvism mean? 

• FAUVISM (noun)
  The noun FAUVISM has 1 sense:

1. an art movement launched in 1905 whose work was characterized by bright and nonnatural colors and simple forms; influenced the expressionists

  Familiarity information: FAUVISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAUVISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An art movement launched in 1905 whose work was characterized by bright and nonnatural colors and simple forms; influenced the expressionists

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("fauvism" is a kind of...):

art movement; artistic movement (a group of artists who agree on general principles)

Derivation:

fauvist (a member of a group of French painters who followed fauvism)