fauvist

fau·vism  (fvzm)

n.

An early-20th-century movement in painting begun by a group of French artists and marked by the use of bold, often distorted forms and vivid colors.

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[French fauvisme, from fauve, wild animal, from fauve, wild, reddish-yellow, from Old French falve, reddish-yellow, from Frankish *falw-; see pel-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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fauvist adj.

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Noun

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fauvist - a member of a group of French painters who followed fauvism Fauve painter - an artist who paints