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How to pronounce fauve in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms fauvist
Type of painter

Examples of fauve

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Michael and Sara acquired too many inconsequential studies, academic nudes, and pre-fauve still-lifes.
From the telegraph.co.uk
In his lively canvases, Burke exhibits a knowledge, love of and facility with color, some of them fauve, others unexpected.
From the ocregister.com
Prodded by his friends Othon Friesz and Raoul Dufy, he began to paint the colder northern light of Antwerp in a fauve style.
From the time.com
The other was a later painting of Adele, pale and strained, standing in a big hat with her arms loose amid fauve colours of red, mauve and green.
From the economist.com
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  • (Fauves) A name (meaning wild beasts) for an art movement that began in Paris, France, about 1905. It was expressionistic art in a general sense, but more decorative, orderly, and charming than German expressionism.
  • A French term meaning "a wild beast" used to label a group of early 20th century French artists, led by Henri Matisse, who used bright, unnatural colors and slashing brush strokes to paint images of contemporary life.
  • A French term meaning "wild beast" and descriptive of an artistic style characterized by the use of bright and intense expres- sionistic color schemes.
  • Fawn-colored, rust-colored