fauvism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.54 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An artistic movement of the first decade of the 20th century which emphasized spontaneity and the use of extremely bright colors.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: fauvisme