So that was how his artistic career began, a career that over the following years would lead him to produce paintings in practically pure colours (hence the adjective fauve, meaning wild or literally "wild animal"). From Wordnik.com. [Art Knowledge News] Reference
Sentir le bouc/le fauve smell like a billygoat/ wild animal. From Wordnik.com. [superfly guy] Reference
In managing the wild instincts of the scarce manageable "bête fauve," my powers would revel. From Wordnik.com. [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference
She smiles, hm, kind of has a nice fauvist quality to it, Canadian fauve … she nibbles a bit more croissant. From Wordnik.com. [Are you Killing or Creating Comment Conversation?] Reference
Reviewing a Matisse exhibition in 1919 Cocteau spoke of 'le fauve ensoleillé devenu un petit chat de Bonnard.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Age] Reference
Someone should delete fundit's post ... fauve - my boyfriend and I were talking last night ... we're conservative. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Spokesman Confirms Network Chose "Diamonds And Pearls" Question] Reference
English parlementaries look at this woman with the respectful and a bit restless admiration one feels for a “fauve” of an unknown species ... —. From Wordnik.com. [Three Guineas] Reference
Conquete quelconque-'pinku kestufé vient t'coucher mon grand fauve '(je repete ceci est une hypothetique scene je peux donc en rajouter c HYPOTHETIQUE!!). From Wordnik.com. [pinku-tk Diary Entry] Reference
"Ruins of the Greek Theatre at Taormina" (1904-1905) ranks right up there -- in size, color, and quirky composition -- with anything the French artist painted as a fauve. From Wordnik.com. [East of the Louvre] Reference
Much more of the museum's B-plus collection (including Matisse's famous fauve "Woman With the Hat" and the best of the pre-drip Pollocks, "Guardians of the Secret") is on view. From Wordnik.com. [New Museum By The Bay] Reference
According to Lucien Reverd, the color palette for wool yarns at Gobelins in the 1660s was about 112 colors, including mixtures, based on the basic reference set of red-yellow-blue-fauve (his list does not mention black or undyed yarns) .14 reference The projected expansion of the palette was ambitious in its numbers alone; how much that expectation depended on reorganized and improved technique is unclear. From Wordnik.com. [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference
Every year until 1951, he showed several paintings (figurative or fauve landscapes and portraits) in the Bordeaux "Salons". From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
In his lively canvases, Burke exhibits a knowledge, love of and facility with color, some of them fauve, others unexpected. From Wordnik.com. [The Orange County Register - Homepage] Reference
A Tale of Two Countries: Art of Two Germanys at fauve is the new red at Montreal Museum of Fine Art's latest exhibit. new director. From Wordnik.com. [Museum Blogs] Reference
He developed an intensely radical (fauve) palette and met such future icons as Wassily Kandinsky, Ezra Pound, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger and Gertrude Stein. From Wordnik.com. Reference
En recherche du mauve pour repousser le fauve. From Wordnik.com. [poème triste] Reference
Submitted by fauve on Wed, 06 / 24 / 2009 - 2: 45pm. From Wordnik.com. [Dlisted - Be Very Afraid] Reference
Submitted by fauve on Wed, 06 / 24 / 2009 - 2: 39pm. From Wordnik.com. [Dlisted - Be Very Afraid] Reference
La meme ambition fauve & perd les Etats. From Wordnik.com. [Essai sur l'homme, poëme philosophique, en cinq langues, savoir: anglois, latin, italien ...] Reference
Submitted by fauve on Fri, 03 / 20 / 2009 - 5: 51pm. From Wordnik.com. [The Velvet Hot Tub | Freshest Stories] Reference
Posted by fauve. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Spokesman Confirms Network Chose "Diamonds And Pearls" Question] Reference
Submitted by fauve on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 5: 22pm. From Wordnik.com. [The Velvet Hot Tub | Freshest Stories] Reference
Submitted by fauve on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 4: 56pm. From Wordnik.com. [The Velvet Hot Tub | Freshest Stories] Reference
Submitted by fauve on Fri, 06/11/2010 - 8: 16pm. From Wordnik.com. [Dlisted - Be Very Afraid] Reference
Submitted by fauve on Sat, 04/10/2010 - 12: 15am. From Wordnik.com. [Dlisted - Be Very Afraid] Reference
Shirley, the “bete fauve “, is Emily civilized. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Brontes]
Brick, fauve, jonquil, sprig, fleet, nocturne, smiling bruise. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
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