noun
- an early 20th-century art movement characterized by bold, non-naturalistic use of color
Usage: art history
Examples
- Fauvism emerged in France around 1905 as a reaction against Impressionism.
- Henri Matisse was one of the leading artists of the Fauvism movement.
- The painting’s bright, unmixed colors were typical of Fauvism.
- Fauvism influenced many later modern art movements.
- Critics initially dismissed Fauvism as crude and unrefined.
- The museum’s collection includes several important works from the Fauvism period.