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FAUVIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fauvist mean? 

FAUVIST (noun)
  The noun FAUVIST has 1 sense:

1. a member of a group of French painters who followed fauvismplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


FAUVIST (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of a group of French painters who followed fauvism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Fauve; fauvist

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

painter (an artist who paints)

Derivation:

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


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