Fauve

American  

[fohv] / foʊv /

noun

1. (sometimes lowercase) any of a group of French artists of the early 20th century whose works are characterized chiefly by the use of vivid colors in immediate juxtaposition and contours usually in marked contrast to the color of the area defined.

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Fauve British  

/ fov /

noun

1. one of a group of French painters prominent from 1905, including Matisse, Vlaminck, and Derain, characterized by the use of bright colours and simplified forms

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adjective

1. (often not capital) of this group or its style

Other Word Forms

• Fauvism noun
• Fauvist noun

Etymology

Origin of Fauve

1910–15; < French: wild beast, noun use of fauve wild, literally, tawny < Germanic; fallow ²