Meaning of fauvism | Babel Free
Definitions
An artistic movement of the first decade of the 20th century which emphasized spontaneity and the use of extremely bright colors.
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“Paris had been the birthplace of the Modernist sensibility during the latter half of the previous century, when its cafés, studios and tolerant atmosphere helped nurture the symbolist school in poetry and impressionism in painting. By the start⟳ of the First World War, it had sheltered fauvism, cubism, expressionism, vorticism, and a host⟳ of other splinter movements through which the emerging culture gradually took shape⟳.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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