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fauces

[faw-seez] / ˈfɔ siz /


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Because of his worship of color, the fauves declared him a father; he did pioneering abstractions, and his obsession with symbol, myth and dreams became in turn the obsession of the surrealists.

From Time Magazine Archive

Around Paris he caught glimpses of the work of les fauves, the "wild beasts"�Matisse, Rouault, Dufy, Derain �whose daring compositions and brilliant colors were setting French art on its ear.

From Time Magazine Archive

The new painters were just fauves, they decided�wild beasts�and Henri Matisse the wildest of all.

From Time Magazine Archive

By 1914, however, the spotlight had shifted from post-impressionism to the angry, angular new vision of fauves and cubists.

From Time Magazine Archive

M. Jules Massenet In this time of anarchy in art, when all he had to do to conciliate the hostile critics was to array himself with the fauves, Massenet set an example of impeccable writing.

From Musical Memories by Rich, Edwin Gile




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