Dictionary
Find
in
Dictionary
Thesaurus
Translations

Click to move up the list of words
faultless
faulty
faun
fauna
Faunus
faute de mieux
fauteuil
fauve
fauvism
fauvist
faux
faux ami
faux-naïf
faux pas
fava bean
fave
fave rave
Click to move down the list of words
Also available:

World English Dictionary
Dictionnaire Français

fauvism

fau·vism [ fṓ vìzzəm ] or Fau·vism [ fṓ vìzzəm ]


noun 
Definition:
 
20C artistic movement: an early 20th-century movement in painting, begun in about 1905 by a group of French artists, including Matisse, and characterized by the use of simple forms and bright colors

Advertisement

© 2009 Microsoft